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Joe Herrick
#1 Posted : Monday, October 26, 2009 10:05:06 AM(UTC)
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Is there a guide on how to install UD Cassini without any user intervention or UI being displayed?
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#2 Posted : Monday, October 26, 2009 12:06:50 PM(UTC)
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Joe,

When your application installer's bootstrapper installs UltiDev Cassini, it is done with no user intervention whatsoever. Bootstrapper (Setup.exe) does display read-only "downloading" and "installing" messages, but that's about it. UltiDev Cassini runtime installation packages are MSI-based, so you may want to look into MSI API to see how to run completely UI-less MSI installation. Msiexec.exe does show some UI, even in quiet mode, so you may have to do some programming in order to make it completely UI-less.

Could you please tell us what is the business case for completely UI-less installation? We would like to consider how important this feature might be for others.

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Joe Herrick
#3 Posted : Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:04:34 AM(UTC)
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Our business case is that we need to be able to install UltiDev Cassini as part of a larger automated process but for technical reasons we don't want to wrap it in another product's setup process as a prerequisite. I'm not quite so concerned about having absolutely no UI shown to the user. I just need to be able to launch the UltiDev Cassini setup process programatically and have it install (preferable to a location of my choosing) without the user having to do anything.

Thanks for the quick response.
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#4 Posted : Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:39:55 AM(UTC)
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Joe,

You can take Cassini runtime installer MSIs (on a machine with Visual Studio 2008 they are in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\UltiDev Cassini Web Server for ASP.NET 2.0), and use msiexec.exe with /passive or /quiet keys to get them installed. Cassini target location is hard-coded and cannot be changed, but this approach should get you there.

Please let us know if this information was helpful.

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