[wix-users] Official 3.14 release date

[ivan.peev at gmail.com]

Christopher,

You are wrong . The installation is not corrupt. I have already stated I have tested on clean machine and I have tested on multiple VS 2017 versions. WiX 3.11 handles VS 2017 installation properly. WiX 3.14 beta breaks the support.

> On Jun 11, 2019, at 8:48 AM, Christopher Painter <chrpai at iswix.com> wrote:
> 
> You have a corrupt installation of Visual Studio.  It should display a lot of information.   Try running the VS Installer and see if it wan't any repair actions or anything.
> 
> 
> 
> From: Ivan Peev <ivan.peev at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 6:52 AM
> To: Christopher Painter
> Cc: Rob Mensching; WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Official 3.14 release date 
>  
> Christopher,
> 
> This is the only printout:
> 
> Visual Studio Locator version 2.1.3 [query version 1.12.134.36697]
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 7:49 AM Christopher Painter <chrpai at iswix.com> wrote:
> Please run C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe  and post the results.
> 
> 
> From: Ivan Peev <ivan.peev at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2019 8:46 PM
> To: Christopher Painter
> Cc: Rob Mensching; WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Official 3.14 release date
>  
> Christopher,
> 
> Find attached the log file.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 6:25 PM Christopher Painter <chrpai at iswix.com> wrote:
> If you don't mind, please log the installation of:
> 
> https://github.com/iswix-llc/iswix/releases/tag/v4.14.5
> 
> Just get to the welcome dialog and cancel out.  You don't need to install all the way.
> 
> 
> 
> From: Ivan Peev <ivan.peev at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2019 5:12 PM
> To: Christopher Painter
> Cc: Rob Mensching; WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Official 3.14 release date
>  
> Christopher,
> 
> Please tell me what tables I should check. Isn't AppSearch command done by the WiX engine?
> 
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 5:59 PM Christopher Painter <chrpai at iswix.com> wrote:
> I see the differences in the log including the MSI name was different.
> 
> I don't know how these were built.  Have you compared the databases using ORCA and compared the relevant tables?
> 
> 
> 
>  
> From: Ivan Peev <ivan.peev at gmail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2019 9:23 PM
> To: Christopher Painter
> Cc: Rob Mensching; WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Official 3.14 release date
>  
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> I'm not talking about the WiX plugin for VS 2019. The issue is VS2017DEVENV property is not available during installation on system with VS 2017. If I run the installer on a system with VS 2019, VS2019DEVENV property is available.
> 
> If I go back to WiX 3.11, VS2017DEVENV  property is again working properly when running on VS 2017 system.
> 
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 10:10 PM Christopher Painter <chrpai at iswix.com> wrote:
> I have VS2019 15.9.4 installed on my build server with the 1.0.0.2 WiX VS 2017 extension and WiX 3.14.0.2927 installed.  Everything works just fine.
> 
>  
> From: Ivan Peev <ivan.peev at gmail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2019 4:32 PM
> To: Christopher Painter
> Cc: Rob Mensching; WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Official 3.14 release date
>  
> Hi Rob,
> 
> It appears my conclusion was too quick. The support for VS 2019 is working fine. However, the support for VS 2017 is now broken. I have tested with the following VS 2017 versions - 15.9.9, 15.8.6, 15.5.2, 15.4.1
> 
> I have done the test on a clean machine with no other VS version installed on it. After I went back to WiX 3.11, the installation is again working properly for VS 2017. Version 3.14.0.2927 is broken.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 8:16 AM Christopher Painter <chrpai at iswix.com> wrote:
> Ah, I was looking at https://wixtoolset.org/releases/ since it had the 1.0.0.2 of 2019.
> 
> I've installed all of them and 3.14 on my build box and 3.14 and updated IsWiX to use the 2019 detection feature in 3.14 and everything looks good to me.
> 
> The only thing of note is how much smaller the 2010-2015 versions of the extension are and how quickly they installed.  I had an initial sense that they were missing something and the installation success was a false positive but everything seems to be there just fine.
> 
> 
>  
> From: Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 12:10 AM
> To: Christopher Painter; Ivan Peev
> Cc: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [wix-users] Official 3.14 release date
>  
> Yes. VS2017 (and all the others) exist here: https://github.com/wixtoolset/VisualStudioExtension/releases/tag/v1.0.0.2
>  
> _____________________________________________________________
> Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/
>  
> From: Christopher Painter <chrpai at iswix.com> 
> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2019 7:35 PM
> To: Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com>; Ivan Peev <ivan.peev at gmail.com>
> Cc: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Official 3.14 release date
>  
> Rob:
>  
> RE the VS2019 extension and the item template issue...   does that need a new build of the VS2017 extension also?