UIPreview object

The UIPreview object is used to view user interface dialog boxes and billboards during authoring. This object is created by the EnableUIPreview method of the Database object.

Members

The UIPreview object has these types of members:

Methods

The UIPreview object has these methods.

Method Description
ViewBillboard Displays an authored billboard using the host control in the currently displayed dialog box.
ViewDialog Displays an authored UI dialog box stored in the current database.

 

Properties

The UIPreview object has these properties.

Property Access type Description
Property
Read/write
Represents the string value of a named installer property or, if prefixed with a percent sign (%), the value of a system environment variable for the current process.

 

Requirements

Requirement Value
Version
Windows Installer 5.0 on Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7. Windows Installer 4.0 or Windows Installer 4.5 on Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista. Windows Installer on Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP
DLL
Msi.dll
IID
IID_IUIPreview is defined as 000C109A-0000-0000-C000-000000000046

See also

Windows Installer Scripting Examples