I want to create a setup project that has a simple and an advanced flow. The first step will show a dialog to choose from one of the flows. The advanced flow shows some dialogs with advanced settings. In the simple mode these dialogs are hidden and the setup will use the default values.

Is it possible to hide a complete dialog in the setup wizard?

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Ewald - Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help.

Hi Ewald Hofman,

Based on my understanding, you are providing the user two ways of installing, simple and advanced, and you may provide more installer options for the installer while choosing simple only exposes little.

Visual Studio may not support hiding the dialog functionailty. However, Visual Studio predefined various dialog you can add for your setup project, and this is very useful. To hide a dialog, we can resort to the free tool "Orca", which is a msi file editor.

For example, if we want to hide "FolderForm" when we choose the simple installation, we can try the following.

1. Using Visual Studio to add RadioButton(two buttons) dialog after Welcome Form for the project.
2. Change the lables to "simple" and "advanced" respectively.
3. Here we change the name of the ButtonProperty to "BtnProperty".
4. Build the setup project.
5. Navigate to the directory which contains the setup.msi in Windows Explorer.
6. Right click the setup.msi, click "Edit using Orca".(Supposing you've already installed the orca.exe).
7. In the left panel, select "InstallUISequence".
8. Choose the "FolderForm" record, and change the condition to "Installed="" AND NOT RESUME AND BtnProperty=1".
9. Save the changes.

Now when you run the setup.msi, and choose simple in our custom dialog, you will see the "FolderForm", otherwise, you won't. Note that I put the custom RadioButton dialog after Welcome Dialog.

If you have any problem, please feel free to let me know.

Best regards,
Bruce Zhou

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Orca doesn't do that, no, but that's because there a bunjch of APIs you can use to update MSI files, and sample VBS scripts. If you install the Windows SDK somewhere there are some .vbs files, scripts to do MSI stuff. Something likeMicrosoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1\Samples\SysMgmt\Msi\scripts.
There is a script called WIRunSql.vbs that will execute MSI Sql statements on a MSI file, so you just need the Sql to update that row. It's be something like this (but this syntax isn't right) Update Control set Condition= <thing> where Control = Folderform . The point is that you can run this script as a post build step somewhere.

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Phil Wilson

Hi Ewald Hofman,

Based on my understanding, you are providing the user two ways of installing, simple and advanced, and you may provide more installer options for the installer while choosing simple only exposes little.

Visual Studio may not support hiding the dialog functionailty. However, Visual Studio predefined various dialog you can add for your setup project, and this is very useful. To hide a dialog, we can resort to the free tool "Orca", which is a msi file editor.

For example, if we want to hide "FolderForm" when we choose the simple installation, we can try the following.

1. Using Visual Studio to add RadioButton(two buttons) dialog after Welcome Form for the project.
2. Change the lables to "simple" and "advanced" respectively.
3. Here we change the name of the ButtonProperty to "BtnProperty".
4. Build the setup project.
5. Navigate to the directory which contains the setup.msi in Windows Explorer.
6. Right click the setup.msi, click "Edit using Orca".(Supposing you've already installed the orca.exe).
7. In the left panel, select "InstallUISequence".
8. Choose the "FolderForm" record, and change the condition to "Installed="" AND NOT RESUME AND BtnProperty=1".
9. Save the changes.

Now when you run the setup.msi, and choose simple in our custom dialog, you will see the "FolderForm", otherwise, you won't. Note that I put the custom RadioButton dialog after Welcome Dialog.

If you have any problem, please feel free to let me know.

Best regards,
Bruce Zhou

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Can the Orca tool be used with the command line (to integrate it in the Team Build)?

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Ewald - Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help.

Orca doesn't do that, no, but that's because there a bunjch of APIs you can use to update MSI files, and sample VBS scripts. If you install the Windows SDK somewhere there are some .vbs files, scripts to do MSI stuff. Something likeMicrosoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1\Samples\SysMgmt\Msi\scripts.
There is a script called WIRunSql.vbs that will execute MSI Sql statements on a MSI file, so you just need the Sql to update that row. It's be something like this (but this syntax isn't right) Update Control set Condition= <thing> where Control = Folderform . The point is that you can run this script as a post build step somewhere.

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Phil Wilson