Frank,

Tim has given you the best advice for setting this up, but I will attempt to just re-word it here. Basically, you need to create the web site in IIS. When you do that, at some point you will need to say where the files for the web site (or more appropriately web app) will be located. When you choose the 'Publish Web Site' option in VS, this will package all your web app files into this target directory you specify. You would then FTP that directory to the directory on the server you specified where your web app files exist.

Therefore, creating a setup program is not necessary, however, you might want to use it as it gives you an ability to 'Install' your web appication on the web server using an install program. What is useful with this approach is that if you want to control what assemblies need to be included and installed in the GAC. If you use this install method, then I believe you might have to uninstall and then re-install every time you make an application change.

I believe Tim likes to include all needed assemblies in the publish directory (in bin) therefore alleviating your need to create a setup program. This approach would seem easier especially if you web app will experience many changes.

HTH


>Hi Bob,
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>that seems quite different to what I am seeing, so I'm a bit confused (surprise!)
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>The MM.NET help file says to add a Web Setup project to my solution and then add some Mere Mortals stuff to the "bin" folder. Do I also need to add all my .dll files (the BO and the Web UI) into this too, or does the Web Setup automatically know that these files must go in there because I've added it to the solution?
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>I have had no prompt for the "source for the site" anywhere in this process.
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>I am assuming that my client will have an IIS web created on their PC or server in advance and then this installation I am now creating will put the relevant files where they need to go, or does the installation have to create a web site?
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>I still can't find a step by step process on how to do this and Inno Setup does not seem to do web sites/application installs.
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>Your guidance is greatly appreciated.