Take a look at SharpSetup -> http://sharpsetup.eu/ . It may help point you in the right direction.
Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment Engineer T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the <Virtual Environment>** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -----Original Message----- From: Matt Siebert [mailto:mlsieb...@gmail.com] Sent: 06 April 2011 08:27 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] External UI Samples? Hi all, Can anyone point me towards a good example of an external UI using DTF? I've been googling for a while and still can't piece it together. Do I just create a standard WinForms / WPF app and then reference Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller? Are there any other references / attributes to set? What's the general workflow for an external UI? Is it... 1. Call Installer.SetExternalUI() to register my external UI handler 2. Call Installer.OpenPackage() to get a Session 3. Use the Session to set properties using input gathered from the user 4. Call Installer.InstallProduct() How would I do an uninstall or a repair? As a side note I was considering using a DTF based embedded UI but after experimenting with the sample in the WiX source I decided against this. It's great to be able to fall back to the internal UI when the embedded UI doesn't support something, but there is no way to handle the absence of .NET on the target machine - the embedded UI just fails and the install execute sequence starts. It would be really cool if the entry point in the self extracting UI DLL package created by MakeSfxCA was able to detect the absence of the target framework and fall back to the internal UI. Maybe in a future release... Thanks, Matt. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
