As a guy who spent too much of his life in the 1990's writing procedural wizard loops in InstallScript, I actually like authoring and testing story of native MSI UI. I just wish they allowed you to put custom controls on the dialog to do some of the fancier stuff.
Of course at this point it's reasonable to predict that MSFT isn't going to be doing any MSI enhancements. It's done. How many people are still on that team any ways? I'm guessing they spend most of their time doing engineering support escalation type work. ---------------------------------------- From: "Blair Murri" <os...@live.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 9:01 AM To: "General discussion about the WiX toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using WPF for standard MSI dialogs I actually created a WPF Embedded UI for a client (3 years ago?) and there are some interesting "edge cases" that are missed in the implementation both inside of the MSI engine and in the specification that create difficulties in making this a robust UI for MSI. I did some code to try to alleviate some of those issues, but haven't had the time to complete that work and to see what workarounds are available vs what simply must be fixed by MSFT. If you can go the Burn route, you will save yourself a lot of headaches for many common scenarios. > Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 11:56:19 -0700 > From: tomer.d...@intergraph.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using WPF for standard MSI dialogs > > > Even better > > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windows_installer_team/archive/2008/04/01/windows-in staller-4-5-ui-enhancements-embedded-ui.aspx > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Using-WPF-for- standard-MSI-dialogs-tp7589733p7589743.html > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
