Within an installer build using Visual Studio 2008 I like to show a link to a website at the end of the installation that the user can click to open the URL inside the standard browser.
Is this possible and if so how?
A:
Maybe a custom dialog window is what you need. See here: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/install/vsSetupCustomDialogs.aspx
Konamiman
2009-11-13 12:46:36
A:
The Hyperlink control is only supported in Windows Installer 5.0 (i.e. Windows 7, Server 2008 R2)
To do this with older versions of Windows Installer, you'll need to create a CustomAction that launches the website, and then tie the execution of the CustomAction to a button, another common use is to create a checkbox saying "Launch blah blah..." and then tie a CustomAction to the 'Finish' button which executes based on the value of the checkbox.
sascha
2009-11-15 22:51:54