Very easy, but I'm probably biased. <smile/>

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Nicholas Devenish <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> On 11 Jan 2013, at 22:16, "Hoover, Jacob" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Yes, if you go with burn the desire is to not show any UI from any of
> the installers. From what I understand, you have a feature tree in your MSI
> that your users can change.  In that case, you would need to write a BA to
> do the feature tree and then pass in the options via a MsiProperty element.
> If the number of features is small you could build a native BA based off of
> WixStdBA, just injecting a new page with your options on it.  WixStdBA is
> however a bit complex for most, as it's written in C++ and it's UI isn't
> using any existing libraries (to keep the BA small).
>
> Thanks for this, it clears up a lot.
>
> Without having dug into writing burn UIs yet, how simple/difficult would
> it be to implement a simple check/message box - if .NET isn't installed,
> show a yes/no dialog asking if they'd like to install it, otherwise, if it
> is installed already, skip that step of the installation? If it's not too
> complicated, I can just do that, but I'd rather not throw away the entire
> power of the WiX UI stages, given the benefits (at the moment) seem to be
> minimal.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick
>
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