Allow user to enter a virtual directory name

CVINAL · Post by **CVINAL** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:56 am

Is there a way to allow a user to a) select which website to add a virtual directory to and b) enter the virtual directory name? I see that the "create new website" installaware aware dialog will let a user create a new website and enter a directory name OR using the create "virtual directory dialog" you can preassign a website index at design time and hard code a virtual directory. What I want the user to do is let the user select an existing website from a drop down and then enter a virtual directory name.

If the dialogs do not support this, is there an easy way (without creating a plug in) to capture input from the user - I just would like to add a field called "Enter Virtual Directory" and use that input if possible.

I have installaware 9 developer edition.

Thanks for your help.

cjoyce · Post by **cjoyce** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 3:43 pm

Yes, we do this. Check out the sample IIS project provided with v9. It includes a wizard dialog that shows how to populate a drop down with web sites and let the user select an existing one or create a new site. It also lets you prompted them for the virtual folder. Word of caution, if you want to give the user an option to delete the folder/site they created, check and make sure you don't let them delete the Default Web Site. At least that caused some headaches for us because other apps share this site.

Chris