Custom Deployment

[jp2msft]

Is there any way to modify a Setup and Deployment project to include TWO
License Agreement pages?

We have a customer that insists on this.

Purchasing 3rd party software is an option, but that would require training
time and modifying the existing project to work with the new tool (mainly
learning how to get the 3rd party tool to work with "OnInstall",
"OnAfterInstall", etc. and new custom images for the installer)

If there is a better forum to ask this question in, please let me know and
I'll post there.

Regards,
Joe

 

[Larry Smith]

Is there any way to modify a Setup and Deployment project to include TWO

License Agreement pages?

We have a customer that insists on this.

Purchasing 3rd party software is an option, but that would require
training
time and modifying the existing project to work with the new tool (mainly
learning how to get the 3rd party tool to work with "OnInstall",
"OnAfterInstall", etc. and new custom images for the installer)

If there is a better forum to ask this question in, please let me know and
I'll post there.

Try an MSI group. Basically though, a deployment project is just an MSI
project. In the end, you wind up with an ".msi" file which is just a DB that
you can access externally using "orca.exe" (a low-level tool from MSFT) or
via the MSI API. Note that 3rd-party tools simply create/modify this file
for you using a nice GUI. You can modify the table yourself however to do
whatever you want. In your case presumably you want to update the
appropriate tables including the "Dialog" table
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368286.aspx). You can add a
post-build event for this as one possible way and write the code using a
script (it's fairly common). Note that MSI is a deep area but I'm sure you
can find examples online.

 

[jp2msft]

Larry, it sounds like you know what you are talking about, but I don't.

What is "an MSI group"?

I've used orca in the past, but I don't know where to find information on
this MSI group thing.

Have you got a link?

 

[Larry Smith]

I've used orca in the past, but I don't know where to find information on

this MSI group thing.

Have you got a link?

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...ault.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.platformsdk.msi
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/winformssetup/threads/

 

[jp2msft]

You rock!

Thanks.

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...ault.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.platformsdk.msi
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/winformssetup/threads/

 

[jp2msft]

I found my solution in a topic entitled, "Create custom dialogs for use in
your Visual Studio Setup projects" on CodeProject.com.

Here is the link
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/install/vsSetupCustomDialogs.aspx?msg=2909142#_top

I hope others find it useful.