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Customer Installer

Hi,

I wish to create a installer for my app.
The installer must prompt the user to input a Path to a file.
Non of the dialog templates gives me the option to prompt for a file name
and path, with a browse button.
I have added a custom action program, can I make advantage of this? or can I
create a new template?

Tim
Jul 21 '05 #1
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Hello Tim,

Thanks for posting. Are you working with Visual Studio .Net's Setup
project? If this is the case, it already has a form for target installation
path (named "Installation Folder"). Apart from the existing form templates,
we cannot create a custom form template.

You may need to use some Windows Installer Platform SDK tool to modify the
raw MSI directly to achieve your goal:

How To Use the Orca Database Editor to Edit Windows Installer Files
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=255905

User Interface Reference
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?u...p/user_interfa
ce_reference.asp?frame=true

I hope the information is useful to you.

Regards,

Felix Wang
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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