Install Direct X silently via WebInstaller in Inno Setup

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I'd like to install Direct X with a web-installer (to make my setup smaller) on a users machine using Inno Setup during the setup of my windows application. If possible, I'd like to do that conditionally, if Direct X is not installed. If also possible, I'd like to do that silently.

I couldn't find out a working way to do this so far - Microsoft seems to make this a bit hard. Can anyone point me into the right direction or describe how this is possible?

EDIT: A semi-working solution can be found here: http://www.vincenzo.net/isxkb/index.php?title=DirectX_-_How_to_detect_DirectX_version

FYI: After all, I just used the directxwebsetup.exe with the silent flag ("/Q"). When DirectX is installed, just a small GUI flashup is seen, and otherwise a DirectX install GUI opens and installs DX.

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windows.net-2.0directxinno-setupdirect3d

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There is a good sample for detecting the .NET version on the ISXKB wiki. This can be expanded to use Nick Sherlock's InnoTools downloader to download it and you can then run it with the appropriate command line options to do it silently.