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VB.NET - What is the advantage of packaging over xcopy in .NET? - April 29, 2009 at 18:00 PM by Amit Satpute

What is the advantage of packaging over xcopy in .NET?

Xcopy technique is to simply copy your web application files to the production server hard drive and set a virtual directory there. The setting of a virtual directory is needed by several deployment schemes and can be achieved from Internet Information Manager Microsoft Management Consol. 

It's always desirable to package your web applications such that they are easy to deploy on the production server then the traditional xcopy in which the developers have to use the command line. 

VB.NET - What is the advantage of packaging over xcopy in .NET? - June 07, 2009 at 10:00 AM by Shuchi Gauri

What is the advantage of packaging over xcopy in .NET?

The most trivial technique to publish a website is to simply copy your web application files to the production server and create a virtual directory there through xcopy command. With packaging it creates a self executable MSI which is very easy and convenient to deploy and install. This allows the end users to install a web application with ease. You could also include custom license needs, agreements, registry entries and other custom tasks such as installation folder etc for ease of the end users. The MSI can also be rolled out to many computers at once by the administrator which is a very big advantage.


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