Question Folder browsing during setup

[leorob88]

Hi, I'm new here and my problem is easily explained.
If I create a setup project with VS2019 the graphic for the folder browsing during the setup is pretty old like it's Win95, I'd rather have one more "good-looking", perhaps one that adapts on the O.S. like the openfile dialog window. Also, one of the problems with this is you can actually select and view one folder at a time and not all other outer folders.
Some have suggested me Wix, but it's trial/license, while I need one for free (lasting a long time, that is). I've tried Advanced Installer but it says it doesn't work with my version of VS2019.

 

[leorob88]

It's not VS2019 that comes with that folder dialog. It's the folder dialog that comes by default with the Windows Installer SDK. If you have a complaint, complain to Microsoft's Windows Installer group, not the Microsoft Visual Studio group.

Windows Installer - Win32 apps

Learn about the Windows Installer, versions 3.0 to 5.0, which is used to install applications or updates or services run on Windows.

docs.microsoft.com

Setup/installation receives the least amount of love in any company. In almost every company I've worked at and/or interacted with, setup work is shunted off to the interns and/or newbies. It's unexciting work that gets very little recognition. We have Rob and Heath to thank for investing their time and energy into trying to improve the situation by trying to provide better tools for creating setup without being forced into the cattle shoot that the company that makes InstallShield used to drive everyone int

That's what i meant. My reference might seem wrong but i was just saying what you meant. The problem is how ridiculous it looks from the outside to see how easily you can put a folder dialog which to me seems based on the o.s. (tried also on win7) and then seeing with the very same software you have some functions that instead are "fixed" and look so much outdated lol