Thanks for the advice. Setting the attribute to None and setting the internal UI to full before starting each of the installations ( Installer.SetInternalUI(InstallUIOptions.Full) ) solve it.
Embedded UI has indeed limited capabilities. I hope that after more and more people will start using it, they will improve it. By the way, thanks for the work done with WiX and DTF ! >> The transaction is joined with TransactionAttributes.ChainEmbeddedUI >> attribute I think you want to use TransactionAttributes.None instead of TransactionAttributes.ChainEmbeddedUI. MSDN documentation <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb736319.aspx> for the ChainEmbeddedUI attribute says: " Set this attribute to request that the Windows Installer not shutdown the embedded UI until the transaction is complete." I interpret that as referring to the UI from the CURRENT package, so that it would remain active and override the UI for any remaining chained packages. However I don't have direct experience with combining embedded chainers and embedded UI in that way, so I could be wrong. Frankly, I've found the embedded UI capabilities of MSI 4.5 very limited, so that in many cases it can't substitute for a full-featured external UI. -Jason- -----Original Message----- From: CristianG [mailto:cristian.gherghine...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 6:34 AM To: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-devs] Embedded Chainer problem with Embedded UI I'm trying to run multiple msi packages using the embedded chainer and each of them using embedded UI. The problem is that only the embedded UI from the first chained package is displayed. The rest of the msi packages are installed in some no UI mode. For example having main.msi, pack1.msi and pack2.msi with main.msi containing the chainer and the pack1.msi and pack2.msi chained. All of them use embedded UI but when installing, besides the embedded UI from main.msi, only the one from pack1.msi is displayed. When debugging, I noticed that the installation of pack1.msi is still in progress mode (not entered Shutdown() method ) while the installation of pack2.msi is going on. Shutdown() gets called only after the transaction is committed. (The transaction is joined with TransactionAttributes.ChainEmbeddedUI attribute) Is there any way to display the embedded UI for all the chained msi packages ? Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Embedded-Chainer-problem-with-Embedded-UI-tp2562974p2562974.html Sent from the wix-devs mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list WiX-devs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list WiX-devs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Embedded-Chainer-problem-with-Embedded-UI-tp2562974p2567683.html Sent from the wix-devs mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list WiX-devs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs
