Make a local Desktop App of the Unattend-Generator?

[stimpy81]

Before I start, I just wanted to say a big thank you to cschneegans for this wonderful service he has created for all of us to use!

Now, I was wondering, that as you make this using DotNET, would it be possible to create a lightweight stand-alone desktop app that runs off the existing code that runs the website so that if the Internet is not available, or the site goes down for whatever reason, we can still carry on using it locally?

Just an idea for discussion and consideration.

[cschneegans]

I have certainly no plans to create an offline GUI application. However, you can use the library stand-alone and without an internet connection in various ways:

• Clone or download the source files, open the project in Visual Studio 2022, edit the Example.cs file and run the project.

• Download a recent build artifact, unzip it and use PowerShell 7.4.x to import and use the library as demonstrated in Example.ps1. Note that you won't be able to use Windows PowerShell 5.x.

In both cases, the resulting file will silently be placed at %TEMP%\autounattend.xml.

[djefferd]

The website is down. I downloaded the source code, did the .net sdk ,8 & 9 downloads, C# SDK, got VS code, and tried both methods above. It did generate a autounattend.xml, but never asked for any input so it's useless. Not sure how to actually make the user input part work.