WiX Installer Update

One thing that has caused me quite a few problems with my WiX installer was optionally displaying a dialog to enter SQL information when the database is installed.

I may change the database to be a critical element of the intall, but I thought this would be a good share.

Based on:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368012(VS.85).aspx

and

http://geekswithblogs.net/jwatson/archive/2006/11/03/96052.aspx

To set the next button to display based on features chosen in the feature tree, you can do someting like this:

< publish dialog="CustomizeDlg" control="Next" event="NewDialog" value="SqlSetupDlg"> 1 </publish> Where "Database" is the name of the feature you want to install.

other access prefixes are:

1. (none) Installer property:  Value of property (Property) table.
2. % Environment variable:  Value of environment variable.
3. $  Component table key:  Action state of the component.
4. ?  Component table key:  Installed state of the component.
5. &  Feature table key:  Action state of the feature.
6. !   Feature table key:  Installed state of the feature.