Guidelines on how to create a Web Deployment Project

Question

User-1455174074 posted

Hey,

Im trying to create a Web Deployment Project, Just looking for any guidelines or beginner tutorials on how to do this, I've never done this before so not too sure on how to do it, looks straight forward enough by adding a new Web Setup Project in Visual Studio. IIS is configured on my machine and I've read a little about Application Pools, not sure if i need to create one of them or not. Im not sure what steps i need to take so could be leaving out a step or two because anytime i create the setup project and run the setup it doesn't install correctly, get an error  "Installer was interrupted before Web Setup could be installed". 

Thanks

Answer 1

User-1659704165 posted

Hi,

http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/

chk the above link

Answer 2

User-1455174074 posted

Thanks for the post, i actually found a pretty good guide

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/06/15/tip-trick-creating-packaged-asp-net-setup-programs-with-vs-2005.aspx

I am still however getting that error,  I think the problem maybe in IIS with the default web site, is there a way of adding another website ( im using Windows XP so as far as i know i Cant, doesnt seem to be a option to do this either in ISS manager). 

Thanks

Answer 3

User-2128752353 posted

Thanks for the post, i actually found a pretty good guide

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/06/15/tip-trick-creating-packaged-asp-net-setup-programs-with-vs-2005.aspx

I am still however getting that error,  I think the problem maybe in IIS with the default web site, is there a way of adding another website ( im using Windows XP so as far as i know i Cant, doesnt seem to be a option to do this either in ISS manager). 

Thanks

 This is good.  I just had a quick browse but it seems it didn't mention about how to deploy SQL database.  Is there some other proper ways to deploy SQL?

Answer 4

User796746907 posted

For SQL deployment and databases there is a tool called the SQL Database Publishing Wizard.  There is a post here that goes in depth to explain how to use the tool:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/12/22/recipe-deploying-a-sql-database-to-a-remote-hosting-environment-part-1.aspx

Hopefully this can be of some use to you. 

Answer 5

User-2128752353 posted

Thanks for reply. 

Answer 6

User897591317 posted

What do all you experts use for deploying windows projects? What is the best approach to separate configurations for Staging/Live etc for windows projects? Is there a tool similar to "Web Deployment Projects"? 

Answer 7

User1414682904 posted

Hello friend,

    Generally we are not deploying the web applications. We are just putting our website folder which consist of published web pages

,web.config etc on the server in InetPub, WWWRoot folder.This is the domain for that website. We will just give link to that server

eg. My Server's name is myDomain  Then the link will be the http://myDomain/the name of virtual Directory created/Login.aspx