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WiX Cookbook

You're reading from   WiX Cookbook Over 60 hands-on recipes packed with tips and tricks to boost your Windows installations

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784393212
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nicholas Matthew Ramirez Nicholas Matthew Ramirez
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Organizing and Building WiX Projects FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Files and Directories 3. File and Folder Permissions 4. Shortcuts 5. Editing XML Files during Installation 6. Custom Actions 7. Installing Wizards 8. Users and Groups 9. Handling Prerequisites 10. Installing Websites 11. Linking to the Web 12. Installing SQL Server Databases 13. Admin Tasks Index

Customizing the wizard by adding a new dialog window to it


The wizards that you get with the WiX toolset are great for getting started but probably aren't a perfect fit for the information you hope to collect or display to the user. As you might expect, we can customize them so that they include our own custom screens. For example, if you want to collect a username and password from the user, you can add a screen that asks for this information and stores it in WiX properties.

The WixUI_Minimal wizard, which we've used in the previous recipes, has only one screen so it's ill-suited for customization. Let's use WixUI_InstallDir instead. It starts out with a license agreement dialog, followed by a dialog that lets the user change the installation directory, and ends with a screen that asks whether they're satisfied with their changes and provides an Install button. We will insert a dialog that's mostly blank but includes the Next, Back, and Cancel buttons. You'll be able to use this template...

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