Votive v3 has been released!!

Well, after many weeks of work, I've finally checked in Votive v3. It is now available after any build >= 3.0.2120.0. You can download it from here.

Just to highlight a few of the new features that are available...

• MSBuild support – the .wixproj file format is now an MSBuild file so you can build your Votive projects from the command line outside of Visual Studio

• Wixlib build supported – there is now a third project type to allow building wixlibs

• Wixlibs and extensions are supported by adding them to the project references – in v2 only wixlibs were supported

• Source Code Control (SCC) support – Wix projects can now be stored in a SCC system

• Many bug fixes and greater stability

• New flashy icons for the file types :) Here are some of the new icons:

  
  

• The setup for Votive itself is written and built using Votive and the WiX MSBuild tasks, which means that I get a lot more test coverage and hopefully will have less regressions

• Cool new flashy property pages that support setting all of the properties for candle, light, and lit. Here's a picture of one of the pages:

  
  (Click the image for a full screen version).

There is still lots of stuff to do on Votive (see one of my last blogs for details), but this hopefully will give a solid and stable base for people to start using. Let me know what you think!

[Edited] Updated the build number to >= 3.0.2120.0 and the location of the install has changed.

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 17, 2006
  Support for creating WiX setup packages in SharpDevelop 2.1 has been added.

• Anonymous
  September 18, 2006
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  September 19, 2006
  Hi
  When I try to create new wix project, I get VS error : "Package load failure. Package 'WIX Project Package' has failed to load prperly (GUID=......)
  I get this error just when installing this Votive build. Other versions of votive and wix are uninstalled. What can be wrong?

• Anonymous
  September 19, 2006
  Well, to my great shame I didn't generate a new PLK (package load key) for the new Votive when I revved the version number and package GUID. What this means is that the package will fail to load in a Visual Studio that doesn't have the VS SDK installed. I've fixed this already and it should be in tomorrow's build (3.0.2120). I'm so sorry about the flub up.
  
  Justin

• Anonymous
  October 02, 2006
  "Setup Projects" in Visual Studio 2005 can only be built from within Visual Studio. The lack of MSBuild...

• Anonymous
  October 03, 2006
  According to the WiX homepage Votive WiX 3 has been released. New Wix3.msi September 20, 2006 The old