WiX Online Meeting #116 Highlights
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
OutOfMemoryException when saving newly generated WIX project, from @mediawolf, lets you watch the Visual Studio Devenv.exe slowly consume gigabytes of memory while hung. [[insert joke here about normal operating behavior]] This bug reproduces only when you uncheck the option to automatically save new projects when created. We took this bug in WiX v3.x to track down a root cause.
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WiX Online Meeting #115 Highlights
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Value containing !(wix) variable is used before being resolved, from @mediawolf, points out that when you use a bind-time variable like !(wix.WixVariable) as an attribute value, sometimes that value is used literally in other places. Sometimes the compiler uses one value to provide default values for other attributes, because it's helpful that way. But it expects the real value and a variable reference that won't be resolved until bind time isn't too useful. We agreed a warning would be useful before using such a value as a default for another; we took the issue in WiX v3.x.
WiX Online Meeting #114 Highlights
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
WiX 3.11: CustomActions and WinForms problem, from @win32nipuh, is back this week with the news from Sean that the original workaround he implemented to get the "modern ARP" working with managed custom actions in the original RTM of Windows 10 breaks this scenario in current releases of Windows 10. Sean already provided a pull request to revert the change in WiX v3.11.
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WiX Online Meeting #112 Highlights
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
After a brief pause caused by certain people being extra-busy doing certain things, we're back to a regularly-scheduled schedule for the WiX online meeting.
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WiX Online Meeting #111 Highlights
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Remove RepairCommands from .NET Framework redistributable package groups, from @barnson, requests that the package groups in WixNetFxExtension not support repair. Repairing the .NET Framework is time consuming and almost always requires a reboot and it's usually not needed when repairing your own app. As this would be a behavior change, we took this issue into WiX v4.0.
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