Visual Studio installer project include Silverlight?

Question

I have a setup project with a few items to install (Out-of-Browser Silverlight apps). The requirement is to create an installer with zero .NET dependency, that will install Silverlight if it doesn't already exist. It also needs to run completely offline. There doesn't seem to be a merge module or bootstrapper for Silverlight, and if I launch the installer with "/q" for a quiet install, it fails due to the other installer already in progress. It seems like the MSI-within-MSI restriction is the problem, and the only real solution is to create my own Setup.exe to install Silverlight and then start the MSI. Am I missing anything? Could a custom action trigger the SL installer when the main one completes? The less work, the better!

Summary: - No .NET/managed - VS 2010, Silverlight 4

Thanks! -Arian

Answer 1

What you are asking for is to redistribute the Silverlight runtime. This requires a license agreement with Microsoft in order to do that. If you want a SILENT install you may have to have more specific requirements for redistribution. Feel free to contact me directly for a contact for redistribution.