The Standard Bootstrapper UI

Burn comes with two built-in user interfaces. The main purpose is to display a single progress bar while the packages within the Chain element are being installed.

Note

If you'd rather show the UI from your MSI package, set the DisplayInternalUI attribute on the MsiPackage element to "yes".

The first is called WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.RtfLicense and the other WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.HyperlinkLicense. We will discuss each one in the following sections.

The RtfLicense user interface

Start off by adding the BootstrapperApplicationRef element to your Burn markup. The following snippet adds the RtfLicense UI to our bootstrapper:

<Bundle ... >
   <BootstrapperApplicationRef  
      Id="WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.RtfLicense" />

This provides you with a dialog containing an end-user license agreement that can be customized with your own RTF text file. To customize the text, reference the BalExtension namespace in your Wix element and...