Useful INformation Visual Studio 6

[Dessip]

Hey i just found this information about visual studio 6 silent install i thought it Would Be Useful.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=195828

Dessip

[devil270975]

Doesnt work properly.

this is how to do it.

You might try following the directions in KB article 195828. If you do, you will be disappointed, because smsinst.exe forks and exits immediately, rendering it useless for scripting. The KB article's instructions for using the acost.exe tool to configure which components to install is still accurate, however.

Luckily, by running "strings" on smsinst.exe, we can learn that all it does is run regedit /s key.dat and then fire up acmboot.exe. The key.dat file is just a simple registry patch to trick acmboot.exe into thinking that the GUI portion of Setup has already run. You must provide the /k switch to acmboot.exe to specify your license key (sans hyphens).