In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can we create a file browse dialog box. On button click , Dialog will invoke
and will select a particular file from any directory.
What particular file are you looking for?
Is it an operating system file?
Is it a file from another installed application?
Is it a file whose location is stored in the registry?
Is it a file whose name is known, but you just need to search the hard
drive for it?
Windows Installer provides mechanisms to search for files and locate
them automatically, setting a property to the full path of the file if
it is found. It is better to locate the file automatically (and
Windows Installer provides several built-in mechanisms to do this, so
you usually don't need a custom action) than to prompt the user for
it.
If, for some reason we haven't yet determined, that you do need to
prompt the user to browse for a file, you'll probably need a custom
action to do that. Custom actions are error prone, even with WiX. So
its really preferable to see if you can exploit the existing
mechanisms in Windows Installer to locate the file.
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