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Creating a list of components and their install status in a c# form.

I am creating an installer for some sharepoint addons and want a similar style to installers that list each package in the list and have an icon/text next to each showing its status. This starts at waiting then installed/not installed.

Does anyone know what this is called? Or how to implement it? Surely there is a better way than creating one from scratch?

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The Visual Studio installer was probably created from scratch. If you want a similar look and feel to that, you will definitely have to create your own.

I would recommend that you instead look at making a custom skin for the Nullsoft Installer System.

It may be a pain, but you can create custom elements showing progress of individual elements by creating a plug-in.

John Gietzen  2010-01-30 15:02:23
Thanks, I hoped there was a template for it as it is a fairly common style. I can't use nullsoft as I need to use a lot of C# to handle installing some complex sharepoint stuff using the object model and cmd line operations.Thanks
Nathan  2010-02-02 08:35:14

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