Chapter 14. Deploying a Web Application

Terms you'll need to understand:

• Delay signing

• Deployment

• Global assembly cache

• Merge module

• Shared assembly

Techniques you'll need to master:

• Creating a setup program that installs a Web application and enables the application to be uninstalled

• Adding assemblies to the global assembly cache

• Planning the deployment of a Web application

• Understanding when you should choose to create a Web setup project versus a merge module project

This chapter discusses how to use Visual Studio .NET to create Windows Installer-based Web setup and deployment projects. This chapter also talks about various ways in which an application can be deployed.