Integration with the Visual Studio Installer

Question

Is it possible to create a user interface for the Visual Studio 2013 installer project ( https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/9abe329c-9bba-44a1-be59-0fbf6151054d )? What is the difference between setup.exe and .msi? Is there a good example explaining the VS installer?

The challenge is to create VS2013 as an installer that downloads the latest files from the Internet (the URL is hard-coded). As far as I understand, setup.exe should get the latest .msi file from the Internet, download it and run it? Therefore, setup.exe needs to be configured in some way. Is it possible?

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