User Interface Management in a Deployment project

[Chuck Hartman]

I am using one of the Custom User Interface generic dialog boxes along with
a Custom Action in a deployment project. I am currently filling in one of
the dialog box text boxes with a default string. However, I would really
like to compute (during installation) the value of the default string to be
placed in the textbox instead of using a design time constant string. Is
this possible? If so, how is it done? Thanks.

 

[Felix Wang]

Hi Chuck,

Thanks for posting. You cannot achieve the goal with VS.Net's setup
projects. Their customer actions are always run after the UI interfaces.
However, if you go for the Windows Installer Platform SDK, you can find
many options to acheive this.

Regards,

Felix Wang
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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[Chuck Hartman]

Felix,

Thanks for your answer. This is pretty much the conclusion that I had come
to. I was hoping that there was something that I was missing.

I think this is an area were a few minor functional enhancements would go a
long way. Thanks.

Chuck

 

[Felix Wang]

Hi Chuck,

Thanks for your update. We will try our best to improve the quality of
VS.Net.

If there is anything else I can do for you regarding this issue, please
feel free to post here.

Have a nice day.

Regards,

Felix Wang
Microsoft Online Partner Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights.