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WiX v3.0 now available for download

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

The Wix toolset provides the building blocks for MSI development, aka setup builder.

Its been a while watching the various incremental builds coming out for Wix 3, but now we are at the RTM the beginning for 3.0! Over this past weekend it has been marked RTM , the 3.0.5419 build of WiX v3.0 was declared the final production build. Read more about the various Wix announcements http://www.joyofsetup.com/2009/07/04/wix-v3-0-has-been-released/

The Wix team is now working on 3.5 – for Visual Studio 2010! Time to upgrade all those earlier versions of 3.0 to the 3.0.5419 build.

For those interested here are some links:

Many congratulations to the team!

Gareth

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For those who havnt noticed – Firefox 3.5 has been Released

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

It can be downloaded at the normal location – www.getfirefox.com. On the surface it looks visually pretty much the same, but has some nice features, and a couple of core add-ons  that are not compatible with 3.5. For the new stuff:

  • Private browsing mode
  • Faster JavaScript execution
  • Can drag tabs into new windows
  • “Forget this site” as a finer tuned scalpel for removing remnants of specific sites.
  • Improved offline browsing
  • New features that we need to wait for web sites to catch up on:

So the good news is that WordPress 2.8 works without a hitch (at least so far :-) ). Google Gears however is currently disabled as it is not compatible. The interesting part is that HTML 5 supports local storage and so is somewhat competitive to Gears, so it will be interesting to see what Google does to Gears when it runs inside a HTML5 browser. I’m hoping I dont have to wait for Gears for too long :-)

For me I’ve not encountered any problems. So to sum up – I dont see anything particularly broken about this release. Which is always nice and reassuring when a release comes out and you dont need to back it out 1 hour after installing it!

Gareth

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Cumulative Update #4 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 Released

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Microsoft SQL Server Release Services have announced SQL 2005 CU#4 for Service Pack 3 is available here.

The full list of problems resolved in this CU can be found http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970279/en-us

Also for those running of SQL 2005 SP2 CU#14 has been released here

Gareth

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GhostDoc acquired + new release … What does the future hold?

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Roland blogged in “Future of GhostDoc” why GhostDoc updates had been unusually quiet of recent. Also if you dont know about GhostDoc and are a C# coder I strongly recommend you spend 5-10 minutes just checking it out. It is nice and handy – I only wish this was just standard in the IDE dev by default.

More importantly there is a new version of GhostDoc 2.5.09150 out to try! Woo Hoo – although it would appear the main benefit is for those on VS2010 & VB.

New in GhostDoc v2.5:

  • Compatible with VS2010
  • Support for VB – GhostDoc now has full support for VB
    • Removed “Enable experimental support for VB” option in Settings.
  • Improved product setup experience

    • Single setup for all supported versions of Visual Studio – VS2005, VS2008 and VS2010.
    • Setup will detect older version installed and automatically uninstall it.
  • Converted from VS Add-In to VS Package
  • Resolved installation issues related to the VS Add-In model – by converting to VS Package

Gareth

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