Recomendations on client installs of web application.

[Bishop]

I'm looking for any recommendations of tools or processes to develop an
install that clients can run to install a web application on they're system.



The web application is pretty simple; the only thing that might need to be
changed in the web.config is the DNS name of the database.



The install will however need to configure IIS (virtual directory, etc.) and
SQL (MSDE probably) with a database containing 4 tables.

 

[Scott Allen]

VS.NET comes with a Setup & Deployment project that is useful for
basic (very basic) installs. There are custom actions you can fire
that could present a dialog box that would let the user enter config
information to write into web.config.

Here is an article demonstrating custom actions to modify IIS settings
during the install:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...internetinformationserverduringdeployment.asp

Other software exists too, Installshield I believe has the capability
to do ASP.NET installs. Perhaps Wise Installer does too.

 

[Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]]

If you need to create virtual directories and set permissions, this
installer does that for you:

http://www.wise.com/wfwi.asp