Hi,
We are a small company and I'm ahead of the Web Department (as, it's only me) :)
On my Web Applications I tend to use the Visual Studio 2k8 Deploy project and that output in the Web Setup Project.
What this does is only create the Virtual Server and put the files there ... Done.
I Want More!
- Create it's own Application Pool
- Get information from the user to replace web.config (DB Connections)
- Apply Read/Write permissions to some folders (IIS user)
- Seamless Update when new version is available
I tried InstallShield (wow! we need a degree in order to develop this)
I tried InstallAware (it is simpler than InstallShield but it has it's own learning curve)
I tried Wix (lost after 3 hours) :(
Next step is to try Inno Setup...
Is there any tool to help on this tasks? Or is it simpler to create my own Windows Form that would do all this?