How to install program silently.

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I have created on windows application and also create its setup using setup project in c#.

but i need to provide costume form with registration process as well as some initial database setting in my setup process, so for this i think i will create one more project that will one windows application with my registration form as well as initial setting from.

so what i want is when i run setup it will start with my custom form project and my original setup will silently installed from background, like visual studio 2010 has its own setup process with custom form. i want like this.

Posted 6-Apr-12 3:37am

Tejas Vaishnav

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Reza Ahmadi · Answer 1 · 2012-04-06T04:06:00

Hi,
One powerful solution is to use Installer class which is in System.Configuration. Using this class you can run various codes during different phases of the installation. Take a look at this for more information:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.configuration.install.installer.aspx[^]

I hope it will help,
Cheers.