Came across this today when I switched from WIX 3.0 and VS 2008 to WIX 3.5 and VS 2010. The solution ended up being pretty simple. Just need to update the Wix Project Properties to provide an additional parameter to the compiler and linker. These can be found at Wix Installer Project Properties > Tool Settings > Additional Parameters Compiler and Wix Installer Project Properties > Tool Settings > Additional Parameters Linker. Just make sure to add ‘-ext WixIIsExtension’ in the fields...
More than once I have come across the issue where we have had a problem using an X509Cert from the certificate store. Everything is configured properly in the certificate store but when we attempt to create the signature we end up with a cryptographic exception for no apparent reason. See CryptographicException: The handle is invalid post by Benoit Martin explains the problem and shows how this issue can be resolved. Technorati Tags: Exceptions,Help,Cryptography...
After I upgraded to Vista I found that I could no longer connect to my remote file shares over SSH. We use Tunnelier as an SSH client which works great, but unfortunately after I did the Vista upgrade I was out of luck when it came to file sharing over SSH. In case any of you have had problems with this there are a couple of threads that may offer you some guidance. https://fogbugz.bitvise.com... http://social.technet.micro...