Deploying ASP.NET Applications with Windows Installer
The most robust way to deploy any application is to use the Windows Installer technology that's built into Visual Studio .NET. When you learned how to deploy Windows Forms applications, you got a good idea of their power and flexibility when creating MSI packages using Visual Studio .NET. You're now going to extend what you learned two days ago and create an MSI package that can deploy an entire Web site.
To start, you need to add a new deployment project to your WebDeploy solution.
To do so, right-click on the solution name in the Solution Explorer and select Add, New Project as shown in Figure 6.20.
Figure 6.20. The New Project contextual menu.
When the New Project dialog pops up, drill ...
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