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Topic: MSI installation through aspx page

Posted By: rajani_sp
Subject: MSI installation through aspx page
Date Posted: 16 July 2009 at 6:18am

Hi I am new to asp.net . I am trying to upload a msi file through FileUpload control and start msi

installation server. The page is accessed from a different machine then the process.WaitForExit() call is

hung. It does not seem to come out of that. My code looks like this.

Proces proc = new Process();

proc.StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("msiexec /i ");

proc.StartInfo.arguments = filepathofmsi ;

proc.Start();

Proc.WaitForExit().

When i access the page in the same machine where the website is installed then the installation works

fine.

Can anybody tell me why this is happening.

Thanks in advance

Rajani