I understand that; I'm not using a UI at all, and I'm not using any managed code within my packages. Since Script actions are the red-headed step-children of Windows Installer, I find myself writing a lot of C++...
I was just saying that for the people THAT WANT to create UI's in .NET (winforms, WPF), nothing is stopping them from doing so now. For that matter, you can pretty much use whatever you want to create the UI, if the UI capabilities within Windows Installer do not meet your needs. Having a toolkit, or at least guidelines as to look and feel, would be great. I don't think that project falls under the WiX purview, necessarily, but it WOULD be a nice companion project for those people that are more comfortable writing UI code in .NET. Really, I just thought the debate somewhat silly, since it's not like one is limited to one UI mechanism or the other. Thanks, 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: tomtr...@artizan.com, General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Date: 2/13/2009 11:37 AM > In article <49958e53.2090...@artizan.com>, > "Thomas S. Trias" <tomtr...@artizan.com> writes: > > >>> Because not everyone requires the .NET framework and for most >>> packages, a custom UI written in .NET is overkill. >>> >> [...] If you want to do it all within an MSI, just use a managed >> immediate custom action to perform all of the UI functionality. >> > > ...which introduces a .NET dependency. > > There are plenty of people out there making applications that don't > use .NET and don't want to introduce a dependency on it. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
