I am using Visual Studio2008 for my development and i want to create a silent set up package i.e. i don't want any UI to come up during installation. Is it possible to create a silent installer MSI using Visual Studio and if not then are there any other tools to do the same?
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An addition to what ocdecio said (which is absolutely correct):
If you want to make silent installation the default, i.e. the standard install action when a user double-clicks your setup file, you can wrap your MSI in a self-extracting executable file created by IExpress.
IExpress is included with Windows and allows you to specify a command to be executed after the IExpress-package has been extracted. In your case you would have to specify
msiexec /i mySetup.msi /q
as the installation command (in certain cases you would need /qn to absolutely suppress all dialogs).
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The MSI runs silently with the appropriate command line options, I don't think there is any way around that. See here - you have to use the /q switch.
An alternative is NSIS.
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In Visual Studio's Solution Explorer, you have to remove the default Install Package User Interface.
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While this link may answer the question, it is better to include the essential parts of the answer here and provide the link for reference. Link-only answers can become invalid if the linked page changes. - [From Review](/review/late-answers/30523254) – AfterFray Dec 08 '21 at 08:33
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See "DETAILS ON SILENT INSTALL REQUIREMENT" here: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/how-to-creating-your-msi-installer-using-visual-studio-2008
