I too were using MessageBox.Show since nothing else seemed to work. However, next problem is, that the MessageBoxes are not always in front and loose focus. What you can do to make sure it always has the focus, is, using MsgBox() from VisualBasic namespace instead. This method basically wraps around MessageBox.Show (thus doubling the exception handling...), but it also always works as a modal Dialog to the application.
Chris. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: akash bhatia [mailto:911ak...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Montag, 23. Februar 2009 06:42 An: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] Still not able to show Dialog from Managed CA 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
