As part of your product installation, you may want to provide a visually appealing and useful run-time interface to your user. Microsoft® Visual Studio® Installer provides several installation dialogs you can display to your users when they run the installer package (.msi) file to install, repair, or uninstall your application from either an individual local machine or a network server.
These installation dialogs present information about your product's features, services, support, and registration to your users during the installation process. Some dialogs also help users set some product installation options.
Visual Studio Installer provides a set of user interface dialogs for each of the following installation processes:
Local installation dialogs are designed for display when a user runs an .msi file to install, repair, or uninstall your product on a local machine. The same local installation dialog boxes are available for all local installations, whether they are stand-alone or network client installations.
Network installation dialogs are intended for display during a network installation. Users — generally network administrators — can run a network installation of an installer package (.msi) file to create a network image of the .msi file on the network server. Network clients then can install local versions of the product when they run this network image.
For more information, see Installation User Interface Dialogs.