Six minutes. That's how long today's meeting lasted. We had only a few bugs to triage so things went quickly. It's going to take me longer to prepare this post than the actual meeting it's summarizing. Well, I'm confident our next meeting will take longer as we plan to talk about WiX v3.10.

Note that the video shows "WiX Online Meeting #65" but it's actually #66. Just a typo.

New issue triage

  • Feature 4749 | Allow collection of SQL information and warning output is a feature request to log the output from SQL operations when using WixSqlExtension. It was originally opened in WiX v4.x but we decided it could be taken in WiX v3.x as it's additive.

  • Bug 4750 | [3.9 R2] Crash when executing burn DetectUpdate reported a crash in a bundle. The reporter came back a couple of days after opening the bug to report that the bug was caused by using a bootstrapper application built against WiX v3.7. In general, WiX offers source-code backward compatibility rather than binary backward compatibility. In other words, Burn might make changes that are incompatible with bootstrapper applications compiled against previous versions but all you have to do is recompile -- no source code changes are required. I took this bug to document that.

  • Bug 4752 | Installation missing votive2010.dll on Windows 10 Technical Preview said that Votive wasn't installed for Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 10. It turns out the reporter was using WiX v3.9 which didn't have support for Visual Studio 2015.

By the way

Side note for those on the bleeding edge: WiX v3.10.0.1519 works with Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate, released last week at Microsoft's Build 2015 conference. You know you want all that beta software -- give both a shot and let us know how they work together.