I recently undertook an exercise to convert the installer source files for the Q sample application in the Windows Media Center SDK from WiX v2.0 to WiX v3.0.  Since I wasn't sure how much general interest this topic would have, I posted an item on my personal blog that describes this experience.

Of particular interest to me in WiX v3.0 is the Votive Visual Studio 2005 add-in.  Votive allows you to create a WiX project (.wixproj) and include it in the solution for your Windows Media Center application.  Then, you can easily configure Visual Studio to rebuild your application binaries and repackage the MSI sequentially.  You can also use MSBuild to perform these build steps if you would like to script your build process instead of using the Visual Studio IDE.

For folks working on creating deployment solutions for Windows Media Center applications, I encourage you to check out this blog post and download the sample setup source files and build scripts that are included in the post.

You can find the blog post at http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2006/12/10/converting-the-q-sample-application-setup-to-use-wix-v3-0-and-votive.aspx.

Aaron