WIX Installer with modern look and feel

Question

I am currently creating an installer for my software. I decided to use WIX for it, because I read on stackoverflow that while it has a steep learning curve, it is the most v

Answer 1

You get a basic UI with Windows Installer, and that's mainly because it comes from 1998 (pre .NET) and could not assume that anything (.NET, C++) was on the system other than the bare bones of Windows. And obviously it's not been modernized.

The standard way to do this is to build your own UI using Burn, supplying your own UI to contain the standard data that the install provides as it progresses. If you do a search for "burn ui wix" you'll find examples of how to provide that framework, such as this one:

https://frozencloud.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/creating-a-custom-ui-installer-with-wix-burn-bootstrapper/

It gets complicated because you need to deal with all aspects of the UI, including file-in-use dialogs, that browse dialog, and so on. There may be some complete examples somewhere if you search for examples.