How to Block "Banner Text" In MSI

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Shailaindra Sharma - 06 Jun 2005 13:39 GMT

Hi Folks,
I have developed a Setup Program. I have also created an MSI in Visual
Studio .net ver 7.1, to which I make a call from within my setup program.
The Point is that in this MSI, if i add a Dialog Box manually, I see a
property called "Banner Text". However such a property in not present for
Default Dialog Boxes. Now when this MSI is Executed, the Banner Text in
these default Dialog boxes is displayed which is interfering with the Bit
map I have pasted on them. I have so far not found a way to get rid of this
Banner Text in these default Dialog Boxes.

Could any one of you throw some light on how to do it?
Thanx

Shailaindra Sharma

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Phil Wilson - 11 Jun 2005 20:50 GMT

The only way I know of (because there's nothing in the Visual Studio IDE) is
to go and change the MSI file. The following works for me. In the Control
table in the MSI file, using WelcomeForm as an example, find the column with
WelcomForm in the Dialog and BannerText in the Control column. In the
Attributes column change the value from 65539 to 0. You can do this with
Orca (install from the Windows Installer section of the Platform SDK from
\bin\Orca.msi).

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Definitive Guide to Windows Installer
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> Hi Folks,
> I have developed a Setup Program. I have also created an MSI in Visual
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> Shailaindra Sharma

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