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Deploy Your WebUI Studio-powered ASP.NET Application in 5 Minutes

We know that you have better things to do than wrestle with tricky deployment, so we relentless fine tuned our process till it only took less than 5 minutes! SmartWebResources™ technology is the key to our hassle-free deployment process. It encapsulates all required resources into one resource assembly for each product. Please click here for more details about SmartWebResources™.

Deployment Manager is a management application that streamlines all product settings into a centralized, intuitive user interface – enabling you to set various deployment configuration effortlessly. The following topics discuss how to deploy your application by using Deployment Manager.

Enabling SmartWebResources™

Enabling SmartWebResources in your development project is simple — just right click on an Intersoft component in Visual Studio designer, and select Register SmartWebResources command.

WebUI Studio's resource assemblies (*.resources.dll) will then be added to the project's bin folder automatically.

Easy deployment with SmartWebResources™

Here’s how to deploy your application to a live server:

1. Ensures that you have enabled SmartWebResources.

2. Run Deployment Manager located inside WebUI Framework folder and load your project.

   

3. Enter your Runtime License Key.

   If you haven't obtain your Runtime License Key, please get it from Intersoft Developer Network 3, under My Components.

   

4. Deployment Manager also contains several application-wide settings, such as ViewState, Optimization, and other.

   Click Next if you don’t need to make any changes.

5. Click Apply to save all changes in the project’s web.config file.

   
6. Copy your entire project folder to your web server and adjust any additional settings on the IIS.

Easy deployment without SmartWebResources™

There are certain situations where SmartWebResources can’t be enabled, for example, you’ve replace the default icon with a custom one. Here is how to deploy your application without SmartWebResources:

1. Please follow the above deployment steps, but do not enable SmartWebResources.
2. Map the CommonLibaray folder (C:\Program Files\Intersoft Solutions\CommonLibrary) to the server’s IIS.

3. If you opted to point all resources to a specific folder in your project, you can use Deployment Manager to configure the physical resources location.