Writing your own MBA would be easier than writing a native one. The intent is to collect all the required information from within your BA, and then pass it to the needed packages via a MsiProperty element. Windows Installer UI is quite limited, but a BA can do anything you can do in code. For a managed BA, you could take a peek at Wix's own BA, though it isn't' specifically meant to be a starting point for all MBA's.
Unified UX, for example VS2012 had between 100-200 ( I think it was 190ish but don't quote me on that) independently serviceable MSI packages. It would not be a great user experience if each package had their own set of dialogs. It also wouldn't be feasible to have one giant MSI package. -----Original Message----- From: ssmsam [mailto:ssmcs...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 11:28 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to suppress the StdBA Bootstrapper UI Hi Hoover, Jacob, Thank you very much for your suggestions. We have 5 components of our product. 2 are the main components and 3 are the client tools for interaction. The 2 main comps should take 2 users-details as input (domain, usrname n pwd) (which ll later ,during installation, be qualified for using the product). we have created 2 custom dialogs to take these inputs. So as u said, 1). to install msis silently , then i am unable to ask the customers to input user-details. I am really curious about ur words *"Unified UX"*. Does it mean the UIs like SQL Server, VS2013, etc? Could you please explain about this. Your help would be grateful for us. (ssmcs...@gmail.com, if you feel if it would spam here). Thanks for your suggestion Rob. I am new to WiX. We are migrating from InstallShield to WiX. So i am learning Wix. I had followed Wrightfully blog to create own BA UI in WPF. But i didnt succeed. :( I tried looking at the source code of StdBA, so still i have to dig into. :( Regards, Sampat -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/How-to-suppress-the-StdBA-Bootstrapper-UI-tp7597705p7597722.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
