You are correct on pretty much all accounts. It's a space that needs more
development to get really good.


On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Nicholas Devenish <[email protected]>wrote:

> I'm writing the installation for a software package, and want to use the
> features selection to do so, and have it mostly running okay in the .msi.
> The software uses .NET, so I'd like the option to automatically install if
> it isn't installed - thus, I have been led to burn.
>
> The problem is, the only way any of the examples show include a wrapping
> licence screen - the .msi has it's own licence screen, and the burn screen
> doesn't seem to be removable, and ends up with two, thematically separate
> licence screens (as well as lots more clicking for the same action). I just
> want the user to be offered to install .NET if it isn't, and then passed
> through to the normal msi installation.
>
> Are my expectations off? I'm starting to get an inkling that using the msi
> interface is "deprecated" and that the whole UI should be in burn, but
> can't find any examples that are between stupidly simple (i.e. the normal,
> literal licence screen on burn) or stupidly complicated (the heavily
> custom-ui of the WiX installation itself).
>
> Is there any way of doing/learning what I am looking for?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Nick
>
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