How to download the installer and start it from a windows form

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I have a setup package in webserver (Installshield Single Image Exe)
I want to download the package from webserver and initialize the setup in unattended mode
from a windows form, when user clicks a button.. Is it possible ???
Can I get its installation progress also ??

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Posted 8-Sep-13 22:44pm

Yesudasan Moses

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V.Lorz · Answer 1 · 2013-09-08T23:23:00

This post here http://www.csharp-examples.net/download-files/[^] shows one method for downloading the file. Once downloaded you could execute the installer like described in this question from a while ago:
execute an exe file in C#[^]
Perhaps you will have to deal with execution permissions and alike, but that's for the next question.