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Visual Studio .Net 2003 full installation

hi folks, i have just been given visual studio .net 2003 to package.
as if that wasnt bad enough, the client want everthing installed...ahhhh nightmare!
after reading a couple of articles here, i see that people dont extract the embedded msi's, they simply create a command line to install.
Is this the best\only solution?
any tips and tricks are much appreciated

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Posted by: joe_virani 17 years ago
Senior Yellow Belt
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I have the same project and my client only want visual c# and vb.net installed.
Installing everything is easy just run the command below and make sure your source files are all in one folder.You will have to run the install and supply the missing files from the cd 2 and 3. run

for the prereqs;

msiexec /i weccom.msi /qB
msiexec /i bootstrap.msi /qB
msiexec /i jsredis1.msi /qb
msiexec /i netfx.msi ALLUSERS=1 /qb
(may want to add the allusers to all of them after determing what prereqs are required for your xp image)


app install;

msiexec /qb- /i \\server\vs2003\vs_setup.msi ALLUSERS=1 TRANSFORMS="full path to transform file" VSEXTUI=1 PIDKEY="your license key" ADDLOCAL="ALL"

VSEXTUI=1 this tricks the MSI into thinking it is being run from SETUP.EXE.
PIDKEY set this property to your license number without any dashes
ADDLOCAL this determines what features are installed locally. I got this very long list from running the SETUP.EXe with verbose MSI logging turned on in the registry and looking at the installation log file in my %TEMP% directory. See below for an example that installs everything but the web development tools.

later
Joe Virani
Houston , Texas
Posted by: ibi 17 years ago
Yellow Belt
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ORIGINAL: joe_virani
VSEXTUI=1 this tricks the MSI into thinking it is being run from SETUP.EXE.
PIDKEY set this property to your license number without any dashes
ADDLOCAL this determines what features are installed locally. I got this very long list from running the SETUP.EXe with verbose MSI logging turned on in the registry and looking at the installation log file in my %TEMP% directory. See below for an example that installs everything but the web development tools.


hi joe,
that might not be enough. i've experienced that you have to provide another property called SETUPWINDOW.
i've written a complete guide on that and posted it at VS2003 Silent on DoctorDeploy

take care,

http://www.doctordeploy.com
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