[wix-devs] WiX v4 Opportunity: New WixBA UI

[brian.e.drennan at outlook.com]

My school load will go down this week. Do you have any design docs together yet?


I've never looked at the bundle source, but I imagine it's MVVM, so the work consists mostly of redesigning the layout and changing some view models?






On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 2:12 PM -0400, "Phill Hogland" <phill.hogland at rimage.com> wrote:





In general, I am interested, and I hope that my current work workload will wind down, letting me contribute more to wix.

I modeled my original mba on the metro grid view similar to the v3.8 WixBA, but that made supporting different locals and adding 'options' difficult.  Over time I have evolved to a look that is more similar to the Contoso screen shots at the link you shared. I did this by reworking the View(s) so I think that your proposed rewrite could be done on top of the existing WixBA project structure.   Since I wanted to use a single mba for multiple bundles I came up with a scheme to sub-class the Model for each (or a group of similar) bundles and use the BundleTag to switch different Models and View(s) in place.  My product manager wanted a 'mobile' phone look that was wizard less and scrolls down to less important advanced options, if any.



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From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf of Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 12:06:24 PM
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Subject: [wix-devs] WiX v4 Opportunity: New WixBA UI

I want to throw this idea out for someone interested in doing some work in WiX v4. Hopefully, someone will be interested in picking it up. If so, I'll offer to write the WIP.

The WixBA today is very *different*. That was a conscious decision to demonstrate how much more you can do with UI in Bundles. Some people thought the UI was cool, some people never liked it. That was okay.

However today, the UI is getting "old". It needs a refresh and WiX v4 is a great place to put it.

So, I'd like to propose that we make the WiX v4.0 WixBA UI look like the new Appx installer UI: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/app-installer/9nblggh4nns1

There are a lot of random reasons why I think this is a good idea. It's a clean UI that is not a wizard. We'll get back to something simple. Also, it'll be associated with "future of installation UI" looking just like what is available in Windows 10. Plus, it should be *really* easy to implement in WPF. <smile/>

Hopefully someone (or even a couple people) would be interested in picking this project up.


Regards,

  Rob Mensching
  CEO
  FireGiant
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