[wix-users] Ideas on what technology

[KONDURU Pavan]

I agree with Dave to keep installation and configuration separate. Looks like the wizard is custom built on some web based technologies like javascript (DOJO, extJS).
Yes, rollbacks will certainly be an issue unless all that the installer does is lays down files.
Thanks for your inputs.

--Pavan

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Whenever I have questions like this it is often quicker to just start digging around in %temp% or poke around the system with procmon.exe or procexp.exe, and start disassembling (reflector.exe, dotpeek, etc) when I find their stuff (which is usually Managed these days).

I agree with Dave's comment on spawning a separate tool, *outside of the Windows Installer process*, to do complex configuration tasks. There are always exceptions to this. For example if you want a 'Cancel' or some other error event from the configuration tool be able to rollback the entire product installation. However still the tradeoff for this exception isn't enough IMO.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 5:15 AM, David Watson <dwatson at sdl.com> wrote:

> It looks custom, from the simplistic UI it may be html hosted in
> something, hard to tell though.
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> Configuration tools like this are usually best written in the language
> you are most productive in.
> Use Wix to get your files on the system (including the config tool)
> and then spawn the tool to do complex server config.
> It's usually a good idea to try and split installation and
> configuration into separate phases.
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> Hi everyone,
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> I was looking at this installer wizard today and looked very interesting!
> Any ideas on what technology or what could have been used to create
> this installer?
> The actual installation starts at around the 1:58 mark
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