How to make rich GUI design fow WiX(Windows Installer XML) dialog?

Question

I am using WiX for make installer for any product. But I don't want to use default UI dialog which is using in WiX. How to improvise UI of a installer ? Is there any tool for designing UI for a installer with highly customize ?

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Answer 1

Rich GUI is done in bootstrapper (aka. chainer). Chainers are made in tool called Burn (B is for bootstrap). I'm not all that familiar with it, but it was supposed to replace all the GUI available by Windows Installer that you can set in .msi files. This GUI is restrictive, and suitable only for simplest tasks, so the idea is to build .msi only as a database file that is to be consumed by Windows Installer to actually install something, and transfer all the GUI to bootstrapper.

Answer 2

The only thing I've come across is WixEdit , although it seems buggy and may have been abandoned. Still, it allows you to do basic UI design of the WiX dialogs.

Answer 3

I recently came across something called Wix#<\/a> . It lets you make custom dialogs using a Winforms-like designer.