ClickOnce CustomDialog For Prerequisites
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mjmim wrote:
Does anybody know of a technique in which I can show the user a custom message of my own before the .net framework installation runs?
I don't know. Did you have a read through some material on the subject like this?[^]
First of all, thank you for the great link with a huge amound of resources... I have spent the last few hours going through them and have not found an answer to my question. Is there anyway to control the dialogs shown throughout the clickonce installation? Is there a way to edit the bootstap attached to the dotnetfx.exe? Anybody have a creative idea?
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First of all, thank you for the great link with a huge amound of resources... I have spent the last few hours going through them and have not found an answer to my question. Is there anyway to control the dialogs shown throughout the clickonce installation? Is there a way to edit the bootstap attached to the dotnetfx.exe? Anybody have a creative idea?
You mean this page[^] wouldn't do what you described??
A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^]
Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic
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You mean this page[^] wouldn't do what you described??
A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^]
Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic
2006, 2007, 2008 -
First of all, thank you for the great link with a huge amound of resources... I have spent the last few hours going through them and have not found an answer to my question. Is there anyway to control the dialogs shown throughout the clickonce installation? Is there a way to edit the bootstap attached to the dotnetfx.exe? Anybody have a creative idea?
mjmim wrote:
Is there anyway to control the dialogs shown throughout the clickonce installation?
You mean like this?[^] You can then modify the Prerequisites dialog (off of the Publish tab from your project designer, or the setup project property page)
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mjmim wrote:
Is there anyway to control the dialogs shown throughout the clickonce installation?
You mean like this?[^] You can then modify the Prerequisites dialog (off of the Publish tab from your project designer, or the setup project property page)
Hey, Once again thank you for taking the time to search for an answer. I believe you quoted this part of the link: Alternatively, you could host all relevant packages internally on some share or server. You can then modify the Prerequisites dialog (off of the Publish tab from your project designer, or the setup project property page) to "Download prerequisites from the following location" to the appropriate location. Unfortunately he is only referring to changing the settings so that dotnetfx is downloaded from a local path instead of from the official website of microsoft dotnetfx. I am searching to add a custom dialog to show up before the prerequisite dotnetfx.exe. Sorry for being a pest. Anybody have any creative ideas?
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Hey, Once again thank you for taking the time to search for an answer. I believe you quoted this part of the link: Alternatively, you could host all relevant packages internally on some share or server. You can then modify the Prerequisites dialog (off of the Publish tab from your project designer, or the setup project property page) to "Download prerequisites from the following location" to the appropriate location. Unfortunately he is only referring to changing the settings so that dotnetfx is downloaded from a local path instead of from the official website of microsoft dotnetfx. I am searching to add a custom dialog to show up before the prerequisite dotnetfx.exe. Sorry for being a pest. Anybody have any creative ideas?
mjmim wrote:
Unfortunately he is only referring to changing the settings so that dotnetfx is downloaded from
Sure it is, but it also references modifying the Prerequisites dialog. Did you even bother to check it out before you dismissed it? :sigh:
led mike
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mjmim wrote:
Unfortunately he is only referring to changing the settings so that dotnetfx is downloaded from
Sure it is, but it also references modifying the Prerequisites dialog. Did you even bother to check it out before you dismissed it? :sigh:
led mike
Hey Mike, Funny, my name is Mike too... Quoting the link you sent me: "You can then modify the Prerequisites dialog (off of the Publish tab from your project designer, or the setup project property page) to "Download prerequisites from the following location" to the appropriate location." I don't think that the author meant that you can modify the prerequisites dialog itself. I think he meant that you can modify the prerequisites dialog - the dialog responsible for controlling the clickonce from within the visual studio 2005 developers IDE. You have an option from the visual studio to state that the prerequisite will be taken from the official website (microsoft) or "Download prerequisites from the following location" - a location of your choice. As you can see, I defintely read what you sent me and would never dismiss a friend's offer for help ;). Bottom line - he was not talking about configuring the installation\clickonce dialog that the user sees. He was talking about where the prerequisite is taken from. I hope I am clear about what I mean. So... Does anybody have any creative ideas? I am feeling kinda dumb at the moment ;)?
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Hey Mike, Funny, my name is Mike too... Quoting the link you sent me: "You can then modify the Prerequisites dialog (off of the Publish tab from your project designer, or the setup project property page) to "Download prerequisites from the following location" to the appropriate location." I don't think that the author meant that you can modify the prerequisites dialog itself. I think he meant that you can modify the prerequisites dialog - the dialog responsible for controlling the clickonce from within the visual studio 2005 developers IDE. You have an option from the visual studio to state that the prerequisite will be taken from the official website (microsoft) or "Download prerequisites from the following location" - a location of your choice. As you can see, I defintely read what you sent me and would never dismiss a friend's offer for help ;). Bottom line - he was not talking about configuring the installation\clickonce dialog that the user sees. He was talking about where the prerequisite is taken from. I hope I am clear about what I mean. So... Does anybody have any creative ideas? I am feeling kinda dumb at the moment ;)?
mjmim wrote:
I hope I am clear about what I mean.
Yes, I now see that I misinterpreted his statement due to my lack of experience with the subject. My bad. Have you ever worked directly with MSI tables perhaps using something like the Orca tool?[^] Everything is in tables in the MSI and tools like Orca give you unrestricted access to them for editing purposes. Technically you could develop an entire install from the ground up by hand. Oh man that hurts just thinking about it, I need a beer now. :beer:
led mike
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mjmim wrote:
I hope I am clear about what I mean.
Yes, I now see that I misinterpreted his statement due to my lack of experience with the subject. My bad. Have you ever worked directly with MSI tables perhaps using something like the Orca tool?[^] Everything is in tables in the MSI and tools like Orca give you unrestricted access to them for editing purposes. Technically you could develop an entire install from the ground up by hand. Oh man that hurts just thinking about it, I need a beer now. :beer:
led mike
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Hey Mike, Hope you enjoyed the cold one. So I would use this tool to edit the MSI of the dotnetfx.exe? Michael
mjmim wrote:
edit the MSI of the dotnetfx.exe?
I would not recommend that.
mjmim wrote:
Does anybody know of a technique in which I can show the user a custom message of my own before the .net framework installation runs?
Use it to edit your own MSI to change the text message in the prerequisites dialog. You can even add a dialog, of course that is much more complicated.
led mike