It's much easier to do 1, 2 and 3 in a bootstrapper which then executes your WiX created MSI.
> > The following sequence of tasks seem like they would be common and I am > hoping that someone has a working example of doing this in WIX: > > 1. Prompt the user for information about which (new or existing) > service > account should be used. > > 2. Prompt the user for information about the SQL database that needs to > be > created (select from a list of SQL Instances, verify connection and > creation > rights, etc.) > > 3. Prompt the user for information about the web app that needs to be > set up > (select from existing sites or prompt for host/port/name to create a > new > site) > > 4. Create the necessary accounts, SQL database, web site, web app as > specified above. > > I have found a number of examples of doing #4, all of which use hard- > coded > values for the information I want to prompt for in #1 - 3. Building a > nice > interactive UI like I see in various Microsoft installers seems like a > lot > of tedious work, especially if we have to start from scratch writing > lots of > custom actions. Does WIX have more support for this than I realize, or > are > there less-trivial examples out there? > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Looking-for- > advanced-UI-examples-tf3865328.html#a10950077 > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
