Creating a setup for an XML Web Service

[steve1rm]

Hello,

VS 2005.

I have to create a setup for web service. Which I don't think will be much of a problem.

However, I have to create a setup that once its installed on the IIS, there is a button that can be pressed that would be on a windows form after the setup has completed. This will inform the user that the setup was completed successfully. Does anyone know of any good method to do this?

I think what I need is some kind of window that will be displayed after the setup is completed. However, how would I test if the setup was completed or not?

Many thanks for any suggestions and examples.

Steve

 

[cjelec]

I have 1.1 so can't really help you, but I did think that if you could have a check box that says 'Go to site when finished' (simular to most installs), then when the setup app on close event fires, shell the site 'Shell("

http://serverorsite/main.asmx")'.

The user would be able to view the site to confirm its correctly installed.

An asp.net xml site usually gives you a user friendly version for testing.

 

[steve1rm]

Hello,

Thanks for your reply.

I was thinking of custom setup, like you can in a windows application.

I think my boss would like a message box to pop-up and say "Test Successful" rather than point to a website.

Any other ideas would be mostly grateful.

Thanks,

Steve

 

[cjelec]

Can you build a test method into the web service, then request that method which returns True. If it does return True then MsgBox("...").

I think that you would need to install the web service on a test machine, create a web reference to it, then change the url within the install application when it knows the target server...