I have added an installer class with the wizard and use a custom action to start my custom action in the installer class. But when I try to show a Folder Browse Dialog, the folders are missing, so there is nothing to browse with! All the buttons are there OK.
Imports System.ComponentModel
Imports System.Configuration.Install
Public Class Installer
Public Sub New()
MyBase.New()
'This call is required by the Component Designer.
InitializeComponent()
'Add initialization code after the call to InitializeComponent
End Sub
Public Overrides Sub Install(ByVal stateSaver As System.Collections.IDictionary)
MyBase.Install(stateSaver)
Dim folderBrowserDialog As New FolderBrowserDialog
folderBrowserDialog.ShowDialog()
End Sub
Public Overrides Sub Uninstall(ByVal savedState As System.Collections.IDictionary)
MyBase.Uninstall(savedState)
End Sub
End Class
I am using VS 2005.
Any one seen this before, I’m a bit stuck
Cheers
Julian
Custom Actions: FolderBrowserDialog not working properly
Gage
Here’s a picture of the problem:
http://www.v8914.com/pic.jpg
Does the Folder Browse Dialog look the same on any one else’s PC
Really appreciate any help
Julian
SteveTr
I am able to repro this problem myself.
These managed custom actions are not really intended to do UI based actions.
I think what's happening is that the custom action is being run under a "system" account. Being under this account may be causing problems with the dialog as it may not have some resources it needs to discover or render the folders.
A workaround is that you can use the OpenFileDialog... It's not quite ideal, but you can use System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName() to get only the folder path.
HTH
CoolMicheal
Instead of using a custom action I strongly recommend using the built in user interface capabilities of Windows Installer. A Browse Dialog is described in MSI Help at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/msi/setup/browse_dialog.asp
Most Windows Installer authoring tools already include such a dialog that you can use. If Visual Studio doesn't then you would have to post-process the built msi file (not trivial) or use a more powerful MSI authoring tool. A list of such tools (including commercial, freeware and open source) can be found at http://www.installsite.org/go/msidev.htm
Peter H
Thanks for the help guys, very usefull
Julian