问题
I have a web application, where the UI is in seperate folder and solution, the middle tier as well as the data layer in different folders and solutions.
Now I need to create a MSI for my web application. Until now we have been using deployment engine, but now we have been asked to do a MSI as the new server does not support deployment engine.
Usually we create MSI for a windows application, where we take the EXE as the primary output. Now how do I create the MSI in this situation.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
regards cmrhema
回答1:
Click in your solution and Add a new project: a Web Setup Project
Then add as output your Website.
Important Note:
This will add all the code (.cs / .vb files) and will protect nothing at all, to protect your code (the compiled one) you need to add the Visual Studio Extension Web Deploy Project
Then, right-click in your Website and choose the new option, and add this project as the input of the Setup.
回答2:
Although the learning curve will be steeper I would recommend using the WIX toolset to create your Windows Installer files - http://wix.sourceforge.net
See also https://stackoverflow.com/tags/wix/info
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10371879/how-do-i-create-a-msi-for-my-web-application