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Posted: **Thu Nov 17, 2005 6:29 pm**

Is there a way to kick-off a command line build, via a batch file, without the progress dialog displaying?

Posted: **Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:34 pm**

Sure, you may use batch files to kick off builds, and multiple ones in sequence; however the build process will not be silent and it will display the progress dialog.

Posted: **Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:08 pm**

Although you cannot supress the dialog itself, you can automate the building so you don't have to watch it without having to cludge a batch file.

Here is a node you can add to a nant script to do this nice and cleanly:

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<target name="installer" description="Build Installer">
      <exec program="miabuild">
            <arg value="c:\\path\\to\\YourSetup.mpr"/>
            <arg value="c:\\path\\to\\YourSetupDir\\" />
            <arg value="1" />
      </exec>
</target>

This of course assumes you have miabuild in your path and are targeting a compressed single self installing exe (which is the buildtype arg 1). I use this for our automated nightly builds, and it works great. Setup a nightly Scheduled task to do a "nant installer" and be done with it.

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Command Line Build - Silent

Command Line Build - Silent