How to provide options and control for Custom and complete installation in VS installer UI

Question

I have an Windows C# application for which I will have to create an installer which would ask user for custom and complete installation.These custom and complete installation options are same application with different feature. I know to provide options by using Installer UI radio buttons but how to provide control as it takes specific exe for the custom and complete installation respectively. Or is there any way to achieve this, appreciate if you would provdie step by step procedure.

I am using Visual studio 2013 premium version, MySQL 5.5.

Answer 1

There is no support for custom dialogs in Visual Studio setup projects - they are limited feature setup projects that do not supply access to the full functionality of Windows Installer. Any installs you see with those Custom and Complete choices (or choices of which features to install) will not have been built with Visual Studio setup installer projects. That means you'll need to choose another tool that meets those requirements, and any others you might have for the install.

Answer 2

You have different ways, you can do it by configurate in VS. But on this I can´t say much. I would prefer to use a NSIS-File or MS-Build to create an setup.exe

With NSIS you can say all Options etc. which the installer should include.

Here is an NSIS tutorial. Hope that helps.