December 2008 Entries

Making a custom setup dialog using WiX 3.0

Recently I started diving into WiX (Windows Installer XML) as a toolset for a setup project I needed to create. And it didn't take much time to discover that WiX provides some nice out of the box dialogs without having to do much work. That is, if you only need the basic configurations, such as a folder browse dialog and a license agreement. However, my project required just that little extra dialog, to provide the location of a SQL database. Basically, what I needed was two textboxes, one to input...
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