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  • Wednesday, September 09, 2009 5:01 PMGUnderwood Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Is there a way to do a silent install?   Or  MSBuild or other batch scripts to deploy?   I.e.,  some way to copy the assemblies and provide the database details without requiring interacting with the GUI installer

     

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  • Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:32 PMGregory Leake Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Not in the current release; you do need to interact with UI to provide DB location details.

    I will look into this option for the next release which is targeting VS10 and .NET/CLR 4.0.

    The key reason the installer must be run on each computer is the encryption of the connection string info; which is machine key dependent; meaning only the machine that encrypts the info can decrypt it at runtime.

    The installer also sets all conn string/db locations in config files; and creates/loads databases; and creates the IIS app/vdirs and application pools for IIS.

    -Greg
    Greg Leake, Microsoft