Question

This is my very first wix project. I downloaded wix 3.6 rc.
My installation project includes 2 wcf and 1 silverlight projects. Everything works fine with default Wix UI. But now that I need to add sql database to it. It works fine with default values like below:

                  <Component Id='SqlComponent' Guid='8B72C159-1477-4A58-AFAE-E94D756BFFA6'>
                    <CreateFolder/>
                    <sql:SqlDatabase Id='SqlDatabase' Database='master' Server='.'
                      CreateOnInstall='yes' DropOnUninstall='no' ContinueOnError='yes'>
                      <sql:SqlScript Id='CreateTable' BinaryKey='CreateTable' ExecuteOnInstall='yes' />
                      <sql:SqlScript Id='CreateTable1' BinaryKey='CreateTable1' ExecuteOnInstall='yes' />
                    </sql:SqlDatabase>
                  </Component>

But I need to present a user interface for sql database path, database name, user name and password, if user and password is not specified then use windows user.

Just to see how to add a custom ui I tried the following:
but it displays the custom ui right away. But I want it to show specifically for sql database installation only.

<Control Id="Title" Type="Text" X="15" Y="6" Width="200" Height="15" Transparent="yes" NoPrefix="yes">
  <Text>Ready to Install</Text>
</Control>

<Control Id="Install" Type="PushButton" X="304" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17"
    Default="yes" Text="Install">
  <Publish Event="EndDialog" Value="Return" />
</Control>

I guess, once I get it to show the custom UI exactly where I want, my next requirement is going to be able to get user input for database path, name, user and password and pass that information to the script. I’m not sure how to do that either.

Answer 1

Finally I found an eye opener article on wix here How to add custom UI

After a long struggle to understand how wix works, the above link to codeproject helped me understand. Especially the part that explains creating UI (MyWebUI.wxs in that article) was the life saver.