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:

• Aaron Stebner’s WebLog announcement (actually this has the below links in it)
• WiX 3.0 Manual (note this is currently blank when I checked it)
• Download the RTM version http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5419.0/

Many congratulations to the team!

Gareth

• 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:
  • Location Aware Browsing
  • Downloadable fonts
  • Embedded open video format support
  • HTML5
  • Native support of JSON
  • and more check out https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Firefox_3.5_for_developers for more details

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

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

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

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd262148.aspx

The next couple of blogs will be more around cloud computing and the changing platforms concepts.

Gareth

For those wanting the latest it was released yesterday,

Gareth

# Guest Failover Clustering is supported for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 in a virtual machine for Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, and SVVP certified configurations provided both of the following requirements are met:

* The Operating System running in the virtual machine (the “Guest Operating System”) is Windows Server 2008 or higher
* The virtualization environment meets the requirements of Windows 2008 Failover Clustering as documented at The Microsoft Support Policy for Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters.

Guest Failover Clustering is when you create a SQL Server failover cluster inside a virtual machine where the nodes are running as a virtual machine. A non-SVVP configuration that meets these requirements will receive support from Microsoft CSS per the policies documented in

897615 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897615/) Support policy for Microsoft software running in non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software

Very cool, the Data Center guys are going to love this one!

Gareth

The Office SP2 download can be found here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b444bf18-79ea-46c6-8a81-9db49b4ab6e5&displaylang=en

This also contains the performance updates that had already been released as a CU for Outlook – which are very nice indeed!

Gareth