RE: Check for running processes with setup

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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