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I have created a custom dialog for Visual Studio Setup Project using the steps described here
Now I have a combobox in one of my dialogs. I want to populate the combobox with a list of all SQL Server instances running on the local network. It’s trivial to get the server list … but I’m completely lost on how to make them display in the combobox. I would appreciate your help and some code might also be nice as I’m beginner :).
I’ve always found the custom dialogs in visual studio setup projects to be woefully limited and barely functional.
By contrast, I normally create custom actions that display winforms gui’s for any remotely difficult tasks during setup. Works really well and you can do just about anything you want by creating a custom action and passing a few parameters across.
In the dayjob we built a collection of common custom actions for tasks like application config and database creation / script execution to get around custom dialog limitations.