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Mohammed Abrar Ahmed
Mohammed Abrar Ahmed

Reputation: 2490

Create a installer for web application in c# using Wix

I have installed the Wix from Wix.codeplex and i created a setup file successfully for windows application and its works well.

Now i have a web app and i want to create a installer for my web app (service installer),i tried with creating a setup file by building the Wix-setup project after adding the reference of the web app projects/Files in the Wix project,but it didn't workout, is there any good resource i can follow or any help greatly appreciate!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1535

Answers (1)

Mohammed Abrar Ahmed
Mohammed Abrar Ahmed

Reputation: 2490

Easy steps that creates a installer for you application

  1. create web application.
  2. build and publish.
  3. harvest the publish folder and thats creates me a .wxs file.
  4. create a setup project in the same solution of my web app.
  5. add .wxs from step3 to the setup project.
  6. build the setup project it create a .msi(installer) and .wixpdb file.

Upvotes: 1

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