We are currently developing a new product and would like to use WiX to create our installer, but we still have some doubts about WiX usage. The version of WiX in question is v3. The problem is our installer does not make use only of WiX dialog sets (WixUI_Mondo, WixUI_InstallDir and so on), but it has some custom dialogs like 'Select SQl Server dialog', 'Inform user and password' and others that is not present on these sets. We also need to write values in the registry and install and lauch a service. This seems like a common scenario, but we couldn't find the right way to these things, and the scarse WiX documentation on the internet wasn't helping much. We were able to make a Wix installer that is launching a Wizard (that we made in Windows Forms) during the WiX installation process, this Wizard has the custom dialogs that we need. But after collecting some more info, we realized that the WiX dialogs order can be modified and it's possible to create new dialogs only using the WiX syntax and Custom Actions. What would be the right way to do this? 1) Create our custom dialogs using WiX syntax and integrate them with the WiX dialogs sets, if it's really possible to create any type of dialog using only this. 2) Create our custom dialogs in a separate project using Windows Forms, WPF or whatever and launch this during or after the installation process. Much like what is being made with our currently installer. 3) Other option...?
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