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Ranjith Venkatesh
Ranjith Venkatesh

Reputation: 1362

Custom dialogs and porting wid in WiX

I have a custom dialog which has an extension wid (CustomDialog.wid) and has a helper library to go with it written in C++. The helper library searches for SQL Servers in the network and fills the combobox in the custom dialog. It also saves the server name or IP address so that it may be used by custom actions later.

Can I use this custom dialog directly in WiX or do I need to create a WiX supported custom dialog?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 90

Answers (1)

Tom Blodget
Tom Blodget

Reputation: 20782

You can convert them into WiX format by building a Visual Studio Setup and Deployment project and then using WiX's dark.exe to create a .wxs file. The output may or may not be completely useful but it's worth a try. You'd probably want to make the dialog size and layout are the same as any "built-in" WiX dialogs you might use in your new project.

Upvotes: 1

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