Comments on: Lessons Learned from Packaging our ASP.NET Application for the Microsoft Web Platform Installer

By: Liming Xu

Liming Xu — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:51:39 +0000

@Jacob, no IIS 7 is not necessary to package it, however, MS PI after installed, is part of IIS 7 manager and make it easier to test out the installer. Like I mentioend, there are a few things you will only notice when being tested in UI.

@Zack, no problem, glad it helped.

@BableGator, make sure you selected “Default Web Site” to your left of the console, otherwise, it won’t show up.

@Mike, good call, I forgot to mention that in my article.

@Dana, I’ll write another blog post about it. Please come back in a few days.

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:46:52 +0000

Hello:

Could you quickly show us how you used the UI to test the application?

I just downloaded Jumptree trial, wanting to test it out, but I don’t know how.

Could you please show us how you did that?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:44:38 +0000

Good article.

Just want to let others be aware.

If your package will be installed on IIS 7, make sure you include your httpmodules under system.webServer -> modules and have

validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration=”false”

in place (disable runtime rejection of Integrated mode applications that have legacy ASP.NET settings)

By: BableGator

BableGator — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:37:30 +0000

I tried using IIS 7 Manger to test it by following the Microsoft guide, but I don’t see any “Import Application”, could you please tell me how you are able to test it using the UI?

By: Zack

Zack — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:34:00 +0000

Thanks for the info. I had the exact problem using IZarc and you just saved me a few hours!

Thumbs up!

By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:32:18 +0000

Is IIS 7 necessary for me to package it?