How to install Visual Studio Code silently (without auto open when installation ends)?
There's a hidden task runcode
, that gets automatically selected for silent installations. To unselect the runcode
task, use the /MERGETASKS=!runcode
option.
VSCodeSetup-1.10.1.exe /VERYSILENT /MERGETASKS=!runcode
(Credits for the /MERGETASKS=!runcode
go to @RobertWigley)
The above is based on build/win32/code.iss
in the GitHub repo:
[Tasks]
Name: "runcode"; Description: "{cm:RunAfter,{#NameShort}}"; \
GroupDescription: "{cm:Other}"; Check: WizardSilent
[Run]
Filename: "{app}\{#ExeBasename}.exe"; \
Description: "{cm:LaunchProgram,{#NameLong}}"; Tasks: runcode; \
Flags: nowait postinstall; Check: ShouldRunAfterUpdate
Filename: "{app}\{#ExeBasename}.exe"; \
Description: "{cm:LaunchProgram,{#NameLong}}"; \
Flags: nowait postinstall; Check: WizardNotSilent
I found to run within Powershell I used Start-Process, Execute-Process seemed to be deprecated for me.
The below is the line I use.
Start-Process -FilePath "path/to/vscode/VSCodeUserSetup-x64.exe" -Argument "/VERYSILENT /MERGETASKS=!runcode"