>Is there any way to implement an interface like this to
>my .Net setup so that I can inform/plead the user to exit
>Word before continuing with the installation?
>I doubt I can do this in the VS Setup interface, but I
>imagine ORCA must provide some mechanism to do this.

""Gary Chang[MSFT]"" <v-garych@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Bob,
>
> Thank you posting!
>
>>Is there any way to implement an interface like this to
>>my .Net setup so that I can inform/plead the user to exit
>>Word before continuing with the installation?
>>I doubt I can do this in the VS Setup interface, but I
>>imagine ORCA must provide some mechanism to do this.
>
> Yes, you can customize the UI interface via the VS Setup project, but
> there
> isn't a built-in mechanism to relate it with checking of the running
> process. Orca is just a UI editor to modify the installation package's
> database, it doesn't provide any automatically programming mechanism.
>
> You may need to create an external user interface to present a custom user
> interface, and then set up the external UI handler to check the running
> process, you need to perform this work manually and add those related
> stuff
> to the installation database (.msi) via Orca. Please refer to the
> following
> articles for the further information:
>
> Customize User Interfaces and Pass User Input to Installer Classes
> http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/ddoedens/CustomUI11102005042556AM/Cu
> stomUI.aspx?ArticleID=421a0138-b86b-47b2-9329-72ee43bb3c85
>
> Beyond the Native Windows Installer User Interface
> http://blogs.msdn.com/windows_installer_team/archive/2005/07/23/442584.aspx
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gary Chang
> Microsoft Online Community Support
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