You might want to look at the UI wix extension in http://msiext.codeplex.com. It has all the facilities such as testing credentials, browser in AD, and checking whether the user has certain privileges.
dB. @ dblock.org Moscow|Geneva|Seattle|New York -----Original Message----- From: Pratapa Reddy Sanaga [mailto:pratap.san...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 2:26 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] How to request live id credentials from the user during installation Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to request live id credentials from the user during installation. Here is what I'm thinking: 1. Use some custom UI to show a simple message to enter the live id and password with Login and Cancel buttons. This will be executed in InstallUISequence. 2. Save the login and password in two secure public properties. 3. A custom action in InstallExecuteSequence would take these properties and submit them to the live service for authentication. My assumptions for the above process are: 1. Putting up a custom UI to request for credentials should be simple, something similar to this - http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/WixUI_customizations.htm 2. Secure public property is the best approach to securing the password unless WIX has something better to offer for saving passwords. 3. It is possible to save data from the UI into some wix properties for login and password. Could someone review this and let me know if I'm missing anything? Thanks, Pratap. -- Vote for loksatta = vote for a better future ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
