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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

Brijesh Gupta
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  • Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/658675/how-can-i-create-a-new-application-pool-in-a-web-setup-project – Dead.Rabit Oct 03 '13 at 09:32

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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.

Christopher Painter
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  • according to the features page, the free version of InstallShield doesn't support deployment to IIS to setup websites. – Dead.Rabit Oct 03 '13 at 09:32
  • Sure it does. Section (3) Configure the target system | Internet Information Services. It brings up a page where the first option is right-click add website. It would have this functionality because it's meant to have the same functionality as the tool it replaced. – Christopher Painter Oct 03 '13 at 10:58
  • Makes sense, the features page I was reading must've been outdated – Dead.Rabit Oct 03 '13 at 11:04
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    FWIW, the only limitations of ISLE that are hard to get around is 1 feature and limited UI authoring. Through creative use of WiX merge modules I can inject all kinds of capabilities into an ISLE built MSI. – Christopher Painter Oct 03 '13 at 22:36