Installation package for the ASP.NET web service

I created an installation package for the web service. When I run the ins开发者_高级运维taller, it asks me to enter the web site name and application pool. I don't wan't to install the web service under existing web site. I'd like to place it under the root. Can I do something like that in Visual Studio?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You might want to consider using Web Deploy to package your app bundle into a zip package and then deploy it with a command line. It seems that Web Deploy might be a more suited technology than an msi as it gives you an easy support for parametrization and first hand access to IIS configuration (for your app deployment).

You can then use manifest provider and define two separate app entries in it:

<MyPackage>
   <iisApp path="Default Web Site/MyApp" />
   <iisApp path="MyServicesSite" />
</MyPackage>

You can anything you want to the package using a manifest: an assembly to be added to the GAC, a registry key, the sky's the limit.

You then grab the manifest and package it:

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:manifest="d:\manifest.xml" -dest:package="d:\mypackage.zip"

And to deploy it by reversing a source and destination:

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:package="d:\mypackage.zip" -dest:manifest="d:\manifest.xml"

Or sync directly from a manifest to server: msdeploy -verb:sync -source:manifest="d:\manifest.xml" -dest:auto