Isn’t there only one success and error page in an MSI? I think something like 
what Heath said below with conditions to hide/show controls plus the ability to 
have text resolve variables would provide much of the same flexibility that MSI 
provides for it’s one success page and one error page.

It may be that we finally need to move the condition and variable system out of 
Burn and into dutil (so thmutil could access it easily), but that’s something 
I’ve proposed before. Or maybe thmutil can do it all with callbacks (i.e. 
please evaluate this string as true or false for me).

I think this is what Bob was mentioning about the whiteboard.

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From: Heath Stewart [mailto:hea...@outlook.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 7:48 AM
To: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] WIXFEAT:4149 - Add UninstallSuccess page to WixStdBA

In response to Sean, seems the more robust thing is to make controls’ 
visibility conditional on variables since we already have a variable containing 
the operation. This is how VS's setup works. Granted it's built on WPF, but 
showing and hiding controls is a pretty fundamental behavior. Heck, even MSI 
dialogs support that.

- Heath from his Surface Pro

From: Bob Arnson<mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com>
Sent: ‎Tuesday‎, ‎May‎ ‎6‎, ‎2014 ‎9‎:‎17‎ ‎PM
To: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing 
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On 06-May-14 22:53, Sean Hall wrote:
> I don't need to convince you that Uninstall needs its own messages.

Actually you do. I'm not convinced it's needed. I'm only convinced some
people want it because they have it today. I'm also convinced that
uninstall isn't *that* special.

> It seems like there's only two options.  The first is to split the
> current 2 pages into 10.  The second is to add the ability to hide
> controls based on which action was taken, and then have 5 different
> versions of a control in a page.

Or add to ThmUtil the ability for a text-capable control to choose among
multiple strings based on conditions. Probably other options we could
come up with caffeinated around a whiteboard. :)

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