setup wizard silent argument

Question

I have a solution that contains a setup project(made with VS2008 setup wizard). I need to have the option to silently install the setup project. I read that in order to do this, I should delete the User Interface screens. But this will make my setup project ONLY silent. I need it to be available to be used normally (non-silent), and when called with a specific argument, to be silent.

So my 2 questions:

• How can I pass arguments to the setup project?
• How can I create a silent install procedure, while also keeping the normal setup, when the project is called with no argument?

If there are resources on the web, please point me to them.

Answer 1

Setup exe can usually be run in silent mode using:

setup.exe /q

MSI can be run in silent mode using:

msiexec /qn /i setup.msi