如何创建允许用户创建新网站和应用程序池的Web设置？

Question

I have to create a web setup with the user be able to create a new application pool and new website. I have been able to create new website and new application pool through custom action. For this purpose I have a windows dialog form to take input from the user and create new or use existing application pool and website.

Since I am using windows dialog form, I deleted the installation address dialog from the user interface views of the setup project. The setup creates the application pool and the website but the files are not extracted. So I think the installer does not extract the file since I have deleted the installation address dialog from the user interface views.

Can anybody please help me fix this.

Thanks,

Brijesh Gupta

Answer 1

FWIW, setup-projects have been removed in VS2012. If you switch to another windows-installer based tool such as Windows Installer XML (WiX) or InstallShield Limited Edition (Free) you can declare IIS metadata without having to write any custom actions.