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Highlights of WiX v3.0.5308.0

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WiX v3.0.5308.0 was released on Saturday, 9-May-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5308.0/.

WiX v3.0 is in release-candidate phase, approaching release: There are only 6 v3.0 bugs still open. See Rob’s bug breakdown.

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  Added detailed documentation about customizing the <a href="http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/WixUI_index.htm">dialog sets in WixUI</a>.
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  Removed build-specific version information from the WiX installer, now that we're so close to release.
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  Fix WixSqlExtension to properly handle strings that contain identifiers that are already escaped.
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  2380391
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  <a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2380391&group_id=105970&atid=642714">Project reference to .wixlib forces light on every build</a>
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  2782585
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  <a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2782585&group_id=105970&atid=642714">PermissionEx Error -ExecSecureObjects didnt close MSIHANDLE</a>
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  2783049
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  <a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2783049&group_id=105970&atid=642714">Heat output produced does not Link, but does compile.</a>
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  2785180
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  <a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2785180&group_id=105970&atid=642714">VSExtension does not work well when used in a Merge Module</a>
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  2786681
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  <a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2786681&group_id=105970&atid=642714">some missing intellisense tags</a>
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  2786736
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  <a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2786736&group_id=105970&atid=642714">Wix uses wrong msbuild version in vs2008</a>: Note that this requires your .wixproj to be declared <br /><strong><Project ToolsVersion="3.5" ...></strong> <br />so MSBuild builds the .wixproj using v3.5 tools.
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  2787116
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  <a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2787116&group_id=105970&atid=642714">WixExtensionSearchPaths should be outside <Target></a>
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  2788210
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  <a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2788210&group_id=105970&atid=642714">heat built wxs will not compile</a>
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