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asp.net-3.5
Hemant Kothiyal
Hemant Kothiyal

Reputation: 4142

Deployment ASP.NET website: Why *.msi required if setup is there?

I have made website deployment project for ASP.NET 3.5 website. After build i have found two setup 1. MyApp.msi and 2. MyApp.setup.

At deployment PC when i just copy and paste only setup file it will prompt error message for finding msi.

After copy msi when i again run setup i will install successfully.

I am not able to find why we need to have both setup and msi at deployment PC?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 395

Answers (1)

Stobor
Stobor

Reputation: 45122

You actually only need the .msi for successful deployment. The setup.exe file is only used to detect if Windows Installer is available on the machine, then it launches the msi.

Upvotes: 5

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