How to Create Windows 8 Style installer

Question

I am looking for how to create installer similar to the one shown below:

Above is Image of Installer of Visual Studio 2013.. this installer works great on windows 7 / 8 .. I tried several options and created sample installers (including nsis, wix, inno5) but none of them provides this kind of UI for installer.

Anybody knows or created installer similar to this ?

Answer 1

Visual Studio uses the WiX Toolset for its installer. The basic WiX Installer does not look like that, but using the Burn tool that is included you can create a custom bootstrapper that has a WPF user interface that mimics the one you like. There is also a very active user mailing list that you can submit questions to if you need additional assistance while working on it.

Answer 2

You can do something very similar with the predefined support from Advanced Installer. See the next sample: http://www.advancedinstaller.com/surface-screen-shot.html

Note, that this is not possible in the free edition of Advanced Installer you need at least a Professional license. However, you can test all of this in the trial period to see if it fits your requirements, during trial you can access all the features.

From what I remember installers with similar UI, created with Advanced Installer, are used by the products of NServiceBus.

Answer 3

AFAIK, the VS2013 installer is basically a wix installer but with a customized bootstrapper (burn) for the UI, which is also part of the wix toolset.