In WiX, is it possible to update the status text when executing custom actions?

Question

When I'm running (multiple) lengthy custom actions, can I update the GUI's status text with some info on the progress?

Answer 1

According to Jonathon Rossi's blog post - yes, you can! But you'll need to tweak your WiX UI for that:

If you have a custom action like:

<CustomAction Id="CA_DevEnv2008Setup"               Property="DEVENV2008_EXE_PATH"               ExeCommand="/setup" Impersonate="no"               Execute="deferred" /> 

Then a ProgressText element like the following will set the status text while it is running:

<UI>   <ProgressText Action="CA_DevEnv2008Setup">Configuring Foo... (this may take a few minutes).</ProgressText> </UI>