You don't have to use the UI provided by Windows Installer at all; you can always just boostrap with your own UI and then configure and install the MSI (either by modifying the MSI database or by setting properties). If you want to do it all within an MSI, just use a managed immediate custom action to perform all of the UI functionality. That said, it would be nice if some standard UI templates were provided in Windows Forms / WPF; one of the nice things about the (albeit limited) UI features within Windows Installer is the fact that they provide a uniform setup experience.
Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Visual Dialog Development From: Richard <legal...@xmission.com> To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com, General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Date: 2/12/2009 12:06 PM > In article <508230.47122...@web36608.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, > Christopher Painter <chr...@deploymentengineering.com> writes: > > >> Personally, I'd rather see a full blown extensible external UI handler >> patter n using Winforms and/or WPF. Think about it... if WiX is being >> bundled in VS 2010 and you already have a dependency on the framework, >> why would you be want ing to poke around in WiX XML to make a 10 year old >> API try to do a decent UI w hen you can just hand it over to .NET instead. >> > > Because not everyone requires the .NET framework and for most > packages, a custom UI written in .NET is overkill. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
