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June 9, 2015Jun 9, 201506/9/15Visual Studio can require a lot of space on the system drive, and previous methods of redirecting the Package Cache can be tricky for some people to set up or even maintain as junctions across volumes may be removed on boot.
September 6, 2012Sep 6, 201209/6/12The Windows Installer XML (WiX) team has released version 3.6 which, most notably, released a powerful and customizable chainer named Burn. The Visual Studio 2012 setup applications were built on Burn using features such as package caching,
July 26, 2012Jul 26, 201207/26/12Requiring source packages during installation, repairs, and even uninstall are common occurrences for some customers. The core issue is that Windows Installer needs the source location of the package and its files to install –
July 26, 2012Jul 26, 201207/26/12Slipstreaming Windows Installer patches is, technically, installing the MSP simultaneously with the MSI as a single transaction. This is, effectively:
1 | msiexec /i D:\product.msi PATCH=D:\patch.msp |
The applicable transforms (both the authoring changes and patch transforms) are applied to the MSI and the MSI is installed with those changes from the start.
May 31, 2012May 31, 201205/31/12On a day of many great Release Candidate (RC) announcements, I should not forget another important RC milestone: Windows Installer XML (WiX) v3.6 RC.
We’ve made a lot of improvements, simplified some scenarios,
March 7, 2012Mar 7, 201203/7/12There are times when repairing or servicing a product that source media is required. As more product installs move to web-based installs, these prompts for source are harder to solve. In order to replace missing,
February 21, 2012Feb 21, 201202/21/12Late last week I checked in a feature for Windows Installer XML’s (WiX) chainer, Burn, that I’m really excited about (ask my colleagues): sticky patching.
This is a feature at the bundle (what we call our composition of packages for Burn) level that supports related bundles of type “Patch”
February 21, 2012Feb 21, 201202/21/12These days it’s more common to install products composed of more than one installer package. Modern applications are often a loose fitting of localized components and being authored into a single package just isn’t practical.
October 28, 2011Oct 28, 201110/28/11Now that WiX v3.6 has been released, I introduce the managed bootstrapper application (MBA) interoperability layer. It’s been available for a while actually, and if you’ve installed any builds of WiX v3.6,
September 16, 2010Sep 16, 201009/16/10WiX 3.5 provides features to integrate with Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010. But like many add-ins, since new files are being added they certainly can’t be in use by devenv.exe.
