Chapter 6. Adding a User Interface
The WiX toolset ships with several User Interface wizards that are ready to use out of the box. You can drop one into your installer by first adding a reference to WixUIExtension.dll
and then adding a UIRef
element with the name of the wizard. We'll briefly discuss each of the available sets and then move on to learning how to create your own from scratch. In this chapter, you'll learn about:
Adding dialogs into the
InstallUISequence
Linking one dialog to another to form a complete wizard
Getting basic text and window styling working
Including necessary dialogs like those needed to display errors