Hello,

First of all I'm not sure whether this is possible or not for I have so little knowledge about "setup" stuff.

I have an msi file, a bootstrapper sample exe and settings.ini file with dotnetfx.exe and MDAC_TYP.EXE as prerequisites for my .NET program. I have adjusted the settings.ini file for dotnetfx.exe and MDAC_TYP.EXE to be installed initially, and here's my question: Is there anyway to make this all installation process silent including the installation of my msi project? Before I wrote here, I did some research and came up with parameters like /s, /r etc.. and I found that by using the /r parameter I could create a setup.iss file which will supposedly include my choices during installation later to be used when setup is launched with the /s parameter. However, it didn't work, or at least I couldn't make it. By the way, I vaguely remember reading some article mentioning that the /r parameter does not work for basic msi projects -not to mention I have no idea what that means-.

So, all I want is making this whole setup process silent and I need to know how.. Any help or reference article will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Running the installation via the generated bootstrapper (setup.exe) can not be done silently.You can turn off all UI in the setupvia User Interface Editor but you will still be left with the EULA dialog for the prereqs that are required by your app during installation.

If all the prereqs are installed for your app however, then you can run the generated .MSI with msiexec.exe in silent mode...

-Robert Schoen (Microsoft Visual Basic QA)