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Night Walker
Night Walker

Reputation: 21260

Web Deployment package vs MSI deployment

Can someone advice me why it's more advisable to use Web Deployment Package over all known MSI packages .

What advantages it can bring me when I will use them.

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2162

Answers (3)

John Saunders
John Saunders

Reputation: 161773

Web Deployment packages, and MSDEPLOY in general, are also integrated with IIS itself. You can deploy a package by using the "Import" command on the site context menu, and create a package by using "Export".

They are also very flexible and can deploy more than the web site. They can also deploy .NET assemblies to the GAC, and COM objects can be registered during deployment. The packages can be parameterized so that one package can be deployed to multiple environments by changing the parameters at deployment time.

Upvotes: 1

Christopher Painter
Christopher Painter

Reputation: 55581

I agreed with the accepted answer but wanted to provide additional prospective.

I have the MSI experience the be able to crank out a multiple instance MSI that supports WebUI/WebApp deployments in a matter of an hour and make it easily maintainable. But, I also recognize that it took a lot of knowledge and experience to get to this point and that for most newcomers to MSI the task is absolutely huge.

I also recognize that to many web developers they won't even try. They will use some powershell to xcopy content and configure IIS without a rich packaged user story.

Web Deployment is meant to be a replacement solution that focuses on single user story rather then the general case.

Upvotes: 2

Teoman Soygul
Teoman Soygul

Reputation: 25732

Similar debate to ClickOnce vs MSI discussions. At the end of the day, you can do pretty much everything with MSI (even if it means using custom actions), than you can do with Web deployment package. On the other hand, Web dep. pack. is nicely integrated to Visual Studio and gives you minimal headache while creating packages. It's all about ease of use.

Upvotes: 3

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