Customized installation screen

[Angelina]

Hi All,

I am creating a setup for a windows application in VS 2005. Now I want to
customise look and feel of all the installation steps screens. But VS 2005
seems not to provide this feature. This only allows to change the baaner
bitamp and some selected text strings. How can this be achieved. Can I also
change location/layout of varios user controls in the installtion screen. I
will greatly appreciate if some could help me out through this.

- Angelina

 

[Dmytro Lapshyn [MVP]]

Hi,

This is a question for another newsgroup, so I am replying with the
"follow-up to" properly configured.

Yes, the IDE won't help you in making such customizations. You can either
study the internal MSI database structure (docs are available in Windows
Installer SDK) and use the Orca (or a similar) tool to edit the setup screen
descriptions manually, or you can consider purchasing a full-fledged
installation package builder such as Wise or InstallShield where
installation screen customization is supported.

P.S. I am not affiliated with either vendor.