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Including modified FilesInUse dialog in WIX project


I have a modified FilesInUse dialog. Just including it in project and changing reference in UI does not help - I get "ICE20: Standard Dialog: 'FilesInUse' not found in Dialog table" error when building installation project.

Browsing the Net I've found one advice - to supress ICE validation for ICE20. Well, building the project with such settings works fine, and the msi also works fine, but I'm not sure that's a good solution to the problem.

Another advice was to modify FilesInUse and remove WixUIExtension from references, but as far as I know this way I'll end up with copying all the needed dialog files to my project. This I'd like to avoid.

So, what can be done to include my custom FilesInUse in WIX project correctly?


Solution

  • See the related question and answers here: WiX replace dialog

    User Yan Sklyarenko answered on Mar 25 '11:

    Couple of articles to help you:

    WiX Tutorial

    Neil Sleightholm's article

    You should find all the info you need for your case there.

    User Bob Arnson answered on Mar 25 '11:

    See "Changing the UI sequence of a built-in dialog set" in the topic "Customizing Built-in WixUI Dialog Sets" in WiX.chm.