A winforms/wpf external ui handler wouldn't require everyone to need .net. Just those people who wanted to use that capability.
Also the fact that many people don't currently implement a custom ui doesn't make it such an edge case that the capability shouldn't exist. Personally I'd say most people shy away from it because of the effort involved in implementing it. If this was done in .NET where people could easily say 'oh, this is how i derive a form and add a custom control and wire it into my sequence' then I think alot more people would put forth the effort to do it. I know I would. But to go back 10-15 years and learn how to do this in all unmanaged languages and api's is a deal killer for me. --- On Thu, 2/12/09, Richard <legal...@xmission.com> wrote: > From: Richard <legal...@xmission.com> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Visual Dialog Development > To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com, "General discussion for Windows > Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: Thursday, February 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. > -- > "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 > draft available for download > > <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> > > Legalize Adulthood! > <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
