hi, Me too... had faced this probelm. so i wrote my own Error Dialog. in managed custom action i checked for the validation and sets the properties accordingly, then on NEXT click i had called my error dialog as spawn dialog. this helped me to meet my requirements somehow....
moreover, if u facing a problem while popping out a messagebox in CA try.. MssageBox.Show(<string>); any further suggestions from any one is most welcome on this.. Thanks! Akash On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Jacob, Christian <cja...@toptechnologies.de > wrote: > Hi there, > > Although some people already tried to help me, I am still not able to get > this working. > > I am writing a managed Custom Action and need to be able to show a > messagebox that for instance tells the user that a specified password does > not match the policies. However, no matter what way I use session.Message, > the best I get is a line in the msi.log, but the Windows Installer just does > not show anything. > > I understand that I have to use InstallMessage.User as a flag and - > although this is somewhat puzzling - the Record index starts counting from 1 > not from 0 (yet the help says at index 0 theres a special format specifier > and later passages say that you have to put the format string in the first > field... did anyone ever think about putting some examples up there? ;-)) > > What I need is a working example that does simple nothing else than showing > a messagebox to the user (UI sequence of course). > > If anyone could help me out here that would be really great!! > > Thanks in advance, > Chris. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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
