LOL, tell that to Microsoft DevDiv then. I can think of plenty of their installs that require .NET and use external UI's.
Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Wed, 2/18/09, Alexander Schulz <k...@gmx.at> wrote: > From: Alexander Schulz <k...@gmx.at> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Visual Dialog Development > To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." > <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 3:42 AM > Richard schrieb: > > 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. > > > An installer and it's UI should be as fast as possible > and should run on > blank windows 2000 systems. In this way, it must not use > .Net (and Java > and so on ...) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
