How to create a silent installer package using Visual Studio 2008
Question
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?
OTHER TIPS
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).
See "DETAILS ON SILENT INSTALL REQUIREMENT" here: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/how-to-creating-your-msi-installer-using-visual-studio-2008