Setup And Deployment, User Interface Dialog Boxes

Question

_{Friday, July 9, 2010 5:10 PM}

Hi,

A few frustrating points about the User Interface dialog boxes that are provided in the Setup & deployment project :

1) What is the use of having TextBoxes[A] , Textboxes[B] and Textboxes[C] or Checkboxes[A] ,[B] etc in the Add Dialog option, especially when all are of the same type . It would have been really worthwhile if we had Dialog boxes which are a combination of Textboxes , Checkboxes , radiobuttons etc.

2) There is no way that we can set the properties of the controls provided by those dialog boxes . for e.g , I added a   TextBoxes[A] dialog for Username , Password fields in my setup project & I ended up with two big Textboxes whose size equalled the size of the Installer window :( . Not only that , I wanted to set the Password Textbox to display passwordChar as "*" , but there is no such provision.

If anyone has encountered those frustrating points and come up with some solution  , Please do share it.

TIA

Girija

All replies (3)

_{Monday, July 12, 2010 12:20 PM ✅Answered}

Hi Girija,

Thank you for your post.

For your concern on User Interface dialog boxes, I would suggest you to read the following documents:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ecaca8zb.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k1c6kd46.aspx

If you want to create custom dialogs for use in your Visual Studio Setup projects, you may refer to the following helpful article for more information:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/install/vsSetupCustomDialogs.aspx
Or you might try some third-party software installer like Installshield, WIX and others. For free software, you can try Windows Installer XML (WiX). It is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code.
For more information, please check: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/files/.
For good tutorial, please check: http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/.

BTW, this forum is for the support of Visual Basic IDE. Since your issue is related to deployment, if you have any further concern, you could post your thread on ClickOnce and Setup & Deployment Projects forum. This will make answer searching in the forum easier and be beneficial to other community members as well.

Thank you for your understanding.

Hope this helps!

Best regards,
Yichun Chen

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_{Tuesday, July 13, 2010 5:02 AM}

Thanks Yichun for the below 3 links given by you . They are definitely a guide to those who want to create there own custom templates for the UI dialogsin Setup and Development project.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/install/vsSetupCustomDialogs.aspx
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/files/.
http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/.

I'm sorry for posting it in this forum Visual Studio Developer Center > Visual Studio Forums > Visual Studio Setup and Installation.

I couldn't find a way to move this thread directly to the ClickOnce and Setup & Deployment Projects . Is there a way to do it ?

Thanks & Regards

Girija A

_{Tuesday, July 13, 2010 5:11 AM}

Hi Girija,

It's my pleasure!

I think that you can copy the content of your thread, create a new thread in the ClickOnce and Setup & Deployment Projects forum and paste the content in your new post.

Hope this helps!

Best regards,
Yichun ChenPlease remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.
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