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 dialog sets and then move on to learning how to create your own from scratch. In this chapter, you'll learn about:

• Adding dialogs into InstallUISequence

• Linking one dialog to another to form a complete wizard

• Getting basic text and window styling working

• Including necessary dialogs such as those needed to display errors