Controlling UI Flow in Setup Project

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killers - 23 May 2005 23:11 GMT

I have not found a way to control the flow of the dialogs. Say you put a
dialog that has 3 types of installs. Workstation Install, Client Install,
and Server Install. I create a radio button dialog using Add Dialog. Now
after selecting which option I want how can I keep the next dialog not to
show if it is a Server Install? There is no Condition property on the dialog
itself is it possible to control the flow or do I have to create my own
custom dialogs and use an Installer class?

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Phil Wilson - 24 May 2005 16:57 GMT

Visual Studio setup projects don't give you that degree of control over the
dialogs. It's not intended to be a replacement for the fully-featured tools,
some of them here:

http://installsite.org/pages/en/msi/authoring.htm

Some those tools are free, and some might let you build a UI to merge into
your VS setup as a merge module. Wix is worth looking at.

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>I have not found a way to control the flow of the dialogs. Say you put a
> dialog that has 3 types of installs. Workstation Install, Client Install,
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> itself is it possible to control the flow or do I have to create my own
> custom dialogs and use an Installer class?

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