I needed to create a silent installer for a VSTO Office Add-In I had created. The installer would be deployed silently via a group policy with an internal network. To do this an MSI (Microsoft Installer) would be ideal which would let you run something like this:
msiexec /i c:\path\to\installer.msi /quiet /log c:\path\to\info.log
The only MS info I could find regarding the install of a VSTO was really old (originally for Visual Studio 2013) and required InstallShield.
I then investigated creating a MS “Setup Project” – which may have worked eventually, if I persevered, but there seemed to be a lot of “working out” to do that should be straight forward.
So, then I turned my attention to WiX Toolset. I had seen this used previously, it is free and I have nothing to lose. Continue reading →