Deployment of WebService with MSI

[Bill44077]

Hi,

I have created a Web Setup and Deployment project for my web service and I
have two questions that I can't seem to resolve. Please help.

1. The file System editor puts everything under the inetpub directory. Is
there any way for me to change this directory? I would like to put everything
beneath d:\dmw.

2. After the installation step I want to run InstallUtil on several files.
It appears that I need to make this a custom action but I cannot figure out
how to make a vbs file to run the dos commands. I tried unsuccessfully to use
the shell(..) command. Please help. I'm sure this is very simple and I just
don't see it. You can't run a bat file under the custom actions (from what I
was able to figure out).

many thanks for assistance - this needs to go into IT in two days.
Bill

[BenS]

Bill,

As for #1 : Wouldn't really try to fight that as Inetpub is a good choice
to begin with.
.. Might be related
to what the virtual directory (local path) was set to
initially. Shouldn't really matter when building the
deployment project in terms of source modules as
all that matters is where it ends up on the target.

As for #2: I know bat files can be run although most of
my experience is from using tools that in turn sets up
the MSI DB. Should be a matter of running the Cmd/Command
shell and passing the bat file as an argument.

"Bill44077" wrote:

Hi,

I have created a Web Setup and Deployment project for my web service and I
have two questions that I can't seem to resolve. Please help.

1. The file System editor puts everything under the inetpub directory. Is
there any way for me to change this directory? I would like to put everything
beneath d:\dmw.

2. After the installation step I want to run InstallUtil on several files.
It appears that I need to make this a custom action but I cannot figure out
how to make a vbs file to run the dos commands. I tried unsuccessfully to use
the shell(..) command. Please help. I'm sure this is very simple and I just
don't see it. You can't run a bat file under the custom actions (from what I
was able to figure out).

many thanks for assistance - this needs to go into IT in two days.
Bill