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copied!<p>If you don't want the user to change the virtual directory you can simply remove the "Installation Address" dialog from the User Interface.</p> <ol> <li>Right Click installer project and select "User Interface". </li> <li>Expand the "Start" node. </li> <li>Right click on "Installation Address".</li> <li>Select "Delete"</li> </ol> <p>If you want different parameters for the Web site, virtual directory, application pool that is normally selected by the installation address dialog you can override with a custom action as others have described.</p> <p>However, in my experience custom actions do not help with setting defaults that the user can change because they execute <strong><em>After</em></strong> the dialogs that ask for user input.</p> <p>The easiest way to set some defaults that the user can override if necessary in a dialog is to do the following. </p> <ol> <li>Remove the Welcome Page.</li> <li>Add a Textboxes dialog (for example "Textboxes (A)")</li> <li>Change Visible properties for all the textboxes to false so no textboxes are shown.</li> <li>Change the BannerBitmap and BodyText property so it looks somewhat like a welcome page.</li> <li>Set the necessary properties you want to override in the "Edit***<n><strong><em>Property" and set the default value in the "Edit</em></strong><n>***Value".</li> </ol> <p>The most useful properties (IMHO) are.</p> <p>TARGETDIR - Where the files are to be copied.<br> TARGETVDIR - The Virtual Directory to be created in the specified site.<br> TARGETAPPPOOL - The application pool to use (NOTE: This must exist, it won't be created)<br> TARGETSITE - The website where the virtual directory is to be created (NOTE: This is the <strong><em>metabase value</em></strong> for the web site... For example: "/LM/W3svc/2". Also note that the site must exist).</p> <p>There is a full list of properties for the installer can be found <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370905.aspx" rel="noreferrer">here</a>.</p> <p>If you really want better control over the IIS setup I would suggest changing your project to a standard Windows Installer project and creating custom Install actions so that you can programatically create AppPools. A good place to start to understand programmaticly creating these things is <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524896.aspx" rel="noreferrer">here</a>.</p> <p>The biggest reason for doing it this way is that custom actions run <strong><em>after</em></strong> prompting but the app pool and web sites must be created <strong><em>before</em></strong> the installer can prompt.</p>

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