I have created a setup using wix installer, During installations user must have to install all features from feature tree, So I don't want to display this feature option screen during installation. Is there any way to achieve this.
Dialog Set: You can select a dialog set without this dialog? Default dialog sets. You are probably using Advanced or Mondo?
Mandatory Features: You can set all features to be mandatory? I guess you might already have done so. Then the user can not do any damage from the GUI (maybe they still can from msiexec.exe command line).
Custom Dialogs: You can create your own dialog set and take it out? Some details here.
Minimalistic sample
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I have created a custom UI and provided the standard dialog boxes as required to avoid ICE20 errors. I have included the following line as required:
If I use a WIX UI this works fine. But now I've created my own custom UI I get an "unexpected error" message with error code 2814 and then one with 2869. Does anyone know how to catch the attempted downgrade to produce a dialog box with the correct message?
I am not an MSI dialog expert, but there are a few things I can point out:
You can customize the internal GUI built into an MSI.
You can also make your own GUI for Burn setup.exe launchers.
Burn GUIs can be more modern than the rather ancient MSI GUI.
A Burn launcher can hide the built-in MSI GUI during installation.
I am not sure what GUI you have customized?
Error 2814: The error code 2814: "On the dialog [2] the control [3] names a nonexistent control [4] as the next control." - this seems to indicate that a control on your dialog points to a non-existent control as the next one to go to for the TAB order of the dialog. You need to point to a valid control that exists and it should be visible too.
Custom MSI GUI: Making your own MSI GUI is rarely advisable unless you need something very specific and unusual. You can use existing dialog sets and just inject a new dialog (which might be what you have done). Due to the lack of flexibility for MSI dialogs I would recommend that you make a Burn setup.exe GUI if you really need a lot of flexibility. I have not looked at this a great deal.
WiX MSI Dialog Sample: There is a sample, modified WiX MSI dialog set here: https://github.com/glytzhkof/WiXCustomDialog
Links: I have a few links on MSI dialogs and Burn GUI. This is quite overlapping, please just skim and see what makes sense to you:
WIX Installer with modern look and feel
Changing text color to Wix dialogs
Wix default folder dialog
Removing Default dialogs from MSI
Other Links:
A very clever effort from Stefan Kruger to work around the MSI GUI dialog limitations: http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/msi/articles/MultiListBox/index.htm
Dynamically changing RTF content in the EndDialog after success
https://github.com/frederiksen/Classic-WiX-Burn-Theme
How to add image background to custom MSI dialog?
I need to add a dialog box that would pop up during complete uninstall (not major upgrade) right after the confirmation ("Are you sure you want to uninstall this product?") dialog. This dialog would prompt the user to answer a question and based on the response, set up a property that would be used in the condition for the RemoveRegistryKey element (i.e. it will remove a registry key only if the user selects an option to delete the key).
I have an idea how to add a dialog to the install sequence (I am using a modified WixUI_InstalLDir sequence to which I added a custom dialog I need during installation), but I can't find any references that would explain how to add a custom dialog to an uninstall sequence. It would be even better if I could modify the uninstall confirmation dialog, so the user would see one dialog instead of two. An the key thing would be to be able to set up a property that could be used in the component condition.
Is this possible? Are there any examples how to do this?
This is against Microsoft design guidelines. Add/Remove programs calls the uninstall with a silent UI argument and the UI sequence is never processed.
The only place you can author UI during an uninstall is a "change" or "maintenance" UI experience where they select Repair | Change | Remove and on Remove do your UI. But you'd have to lock down the Remove buttom and force them through this path. Also realize they could call msiexec /x /qb from the command line.
Bottom line is Microsoft made this choice to make the uninstall process simple and easy for the user. As for removing the registry key, Microsoft would say that you should leave user data on uninstall.
We have an MSI and Bundle created in Wix. I need to localize both of these in such a way that language selection GUI will be popped-up and language can be selected by the user at run time. Would be really appreciated if anybody can help me on this.
For MSI, i am working on creating another bootstapper for bringing-up with language selection combobox and invoke the tranfomed MSI with the required transform(using command shell). I am still not sure about the feasibilty of this approach. I am facing issue in creating combo box in customized UI of bootstapper and invoking batch command to run this msi in the required language.
For Bundle - I am still working on finding a method. if anybody has any idea/samples for this.
It will be helpful if anybody can help me with this issue or provide me with an another alternative method to meet above requirement.
Thanks,
The recommended method (and for that matter, the method used by most MS products), is as you describe.
Create an MSI localized for each language
pick a base and generate MST's
Package the MSTs, the MSI and the bootstrapper, which will
present the language selection dialog and call MSIEXEC, passing TRANSFORM=language.mst as an argument
After the MSIEXEC process has started, all localization is finalized, so to speak. Any selection must go on outside the MSI system.
See this codeproject article for an example.
I guess this may help you:
creating language selection dialog using WiX.
there is a limitation that custom UI for language selection is created using C# based custom bootstrapper. This may lead to the requirement of .Net framework on host machine.
UI selection for MSI
Create an MSI localized for each language
Pick a base and generate MST's
Package the MSTs, the MSI into a bootstrapper.
Customize the HyperlinkTheme.xml to include radio button for selecting each language.
Use the Variable tag to link radio button from UI to .wxs file
Include the msi property in the msi tag and hard code the path to MST's and InstallCondition attribute to differentiate each selection
Use the latest version of wix for this feature support.
Bundle support only automatic base detection there is no support for UI selection
Is there a way for user to select a specific file using BrowseDlg? All i can find is that you can select only a folder!! I believe File selection is one of the "common" functionality in use.
Can anyone provide some suggestion on how this can be achieved.
Thanks!
Update
I am thinking of creating a C# custom aciton for this, as all other CA in project are in C#. But I am not sure about few things....
How can I sequence this CA dialog with my exsiting UI sequence.
How to trigger a CA on a button click from one of my custom dialog.
How to get the file path back from File Browse CA to be further used by WIX.
The other CAs that I have created does not have any UI associated.
Please advice.
Thanks!
Actually, Windows Installer doesn't have anything built-in for the "Browse for file" dialog. Various vendors offer their custom solutions, like Advanced Installer and InstallShield.
Anyway, this all ends up in a custom dialog and custom action for Browse button. You can find an example of this here (search for "File Browse Dialog" on that page). The package you'll find contains the custom action, sample solution and some notes. It is based on InstallShield, but you can take at least custom action from there (creating a custom dialog in WiX is not that hard). As a last resort, you can try to implement this CA yourself.
Let me be upfront I am novice with WiX. I have a custom dialog CustomSetupTypeDlg.wxs that changes the Typical/Custom/Complete to Desktop/Server/Suite. It sets WixUI_InstallMode to InstallDesktop, InstallServer and InstallSuite appropriately.
I need to have the user browse for an installation folder depending upon what feature is to be installed. If InstallDesktop or InstallSuite is selected the user has to select two different paths for DESKTOPINSTALLDIRECTORY and SERVERINSTALLDIRECTORY. However if the install mode is InstallServer only SERVERINSTALLDIRECTORY choice should be presented.
I am uncertain on how to go about doing this.
You want to have actions in your InstallExecute sequence that display the dialogs you need. Inside the tag you provide a conditional, which, when true, causes the action to actually happen. See this tutorial, specifically section 5.3 for a list of conditionals.
I decided to simplify the project by splitting the desktop and server features into two separate installers.