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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsJeff A. Zimniewicz, Phillip J. Marino, Crista Johnson
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A system and method are presented for a suite integration toolkit (SIT) allowing for the provision and display of a rich set of installation actions. The user interface (UI) provides a list box interface having pull down menus for the display and selection of component defined installation actions. Preferably the SIT is used to install a suite of applications having multiple components and sub-components. These components and sub-components are displayed with the install action selected and the disk space required displayed. The UI also provides a summation of the required disk space of only those components that will actually be installed, taking into consideration and excluding from the summation required components that are already installed. An interface method is implemented by each of the components to expose a method to allow the SIT to query the component for its available installation actions and results.
A computer-readable medium having a suite of computer-executable components comprising at least one component implementing a component setup interface, said component setup interface exposing a first method to allow another component to query for a specific setup install action interface for each install action available for the component.
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