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Highlights of WiX v3.0.5329.0

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WiX v3.0.5329.0 was released on Friday, 29-May-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5329.0/.

WiX v3.0 is in release-candidate phase, approaching release: There are zero v3.0 bugs open. See Rob’s empty chart. Only critical bugs breaking core use cases would be considered for WiX v3.0 now.

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  Updated error message that's displayed when there's a mismatch between a database's codepage and characters used in the database. <a href="http://unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html">Oh, if only there were a way of representing all those characters…</a>Alas, until then, MSI databases require codepages and that means that you have to use the right subset of characters for the codepage you're using.
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  Added a topic on integrating WiX into a Team Foundation Build lab project.
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  Fixed typos in error messages, changed the logging output of a couple of MSBuild tasks to not look like error messages, added schema support for links inside element descriptions.
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  2795343
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  <a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2795343&group_id=105970&atid=642714">GenerateBootstrapper ApplicationFile must be relative path</a>
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So I guess WiX West team in Redmond has been relaxing as WiX v3.0 winds down…oh wait, I guess we have been cooking up a little something…