Use WiX browser dialog to set edit box value

Question

I\'m trying to create a WiX installer dialog that provides a series of textboxes that users need to fill in with directory locations.

What I would like to do is put

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None of the above or anywhere else worked for me. What did work is so more simple and straight forward.

Like many, I need to prompt the Installer user for the target locations of SQL Server .mdf and .ldf files, which will likely reside outside of any pre-installation Directory structure. In fact, my preceding Dialog prompts the user for the target database server. Given that, I then custom act on that preceding Dialog's "Next" button to (a) find the mdf & ldf paths of the server's "master" database and then (b) default the new database's respective paths to those of the master db.

But hours of frustration making PathEdit play nice with BrowseDlg proved futile. What I ended up doing was creating a placeholder Property called PATH_TEMP_BROWSE. It is the "SetTarget" call in the BrowseDlg that forces us to enlist the Wix Directory tree. Get rid of that line in your own custom rip-off of BrowseDlg and instead pass around the user's selected directory via PATH_TEMP_BROWSE thusly:

  
  
    
    
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Then, to make use of my pop-up modal DirectoryBrowserDlg within my installation Dialog that prompts the user for the new database name as well as its logical files...

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Do the same for your .ldf file.

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