Create custom forms inside the setup project

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Is it possible to create custom forms inside your setup project? enter image description here

The reason for this is because I would like to add a form where it will allow the user to: 1. enter the username and password to be written in the configuration file 2. enter new configurations at post installation.

PhilDW · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-24 20:43:33Z

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There are only the canned dialogs you can add, right-click Start in that dialog and Add dialog. TextBoxes() would work, but there is no support for a password protection that I can see. In the textboxes dialog you end up with the values in properties called EDITA1, EDITA2 and you pass those to custom actions as [EDITA1] etc, they are case-sensitive, and the way they are passed depends on what kind of custom action you use to write into the text file.

If you have a post installation program that can change that configuration, it's often better to run that the first time your app runs. You can have a modern UI, it's much easier to test and debug, it runs with the user's credentials (custom actions don't) and you are creating that code anyway.

answered Nov 24, 2014 at 20:43

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Musikero31 Over a year ago

Thank you! Is there any link that you can share to me that I can look into?

PhilDW Over a year ago

Link for which part, sorry?

Musikero31 Over a year ago

I think this is more like creating a custom setup form. That would accommodate the requirement.

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