Step 2: Check Prerequisites Needed

Each type of deployment has its own set of additional requirements needed to complete the deployment. The Prerequisites step shows only when these requirements have not been met for the currently selected deployment. For example:

 

For creating Deployment folder or MSI –

 

To generate a deployment folder for the ASP.NET framework 4.5, you must have Visual Studio 2012 or Visual Studio 2013.

You can switch between these two by selecting Visual Studio 2012 or Visual Studio 2013 Solution File in Application Wizard.

Deployment is handled by publishing in Visual Studio as explained at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd394698.aspx

 

To generate a deployment project or MSI for 4.0 or 3.5 framework, you must install Visual Studio’s respective version and the Web Deployment Projects add-in for Visual Studio

Deployment Project for visual studio 2008 can be installed from

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25163

 

Deployment Project for visual studio 2010 can be installed from

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24509

 

For creating Android deployment –

 

JDK installation is required to create an Android application.

The program can be downloaded from: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/webnotes/install/windows/jdk-installation-windows.html

Please set JAVA_HOME and PATH environment variables after installation.

 

Android SDK installation is required to create an Android application.

The program can be downloaded from: https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Please set PATH environment variable for tools and platform-tools after installation.

 

Apache Ant installation is required to create an Android application.

The program can be downloaded from: http://ant.apache.org/

Please set ANT_HOME and PATH environment variable for Ant after installation. Also make sure to download binary source for Ant.

 

For creating Sharepoint deployment –

 

The program WSPBuilder is required to create a SharePoint solution file for deployment

The program can be downloaded from: http://www.codeplex.com/wspbuilder

See Also

Deploying Applications with the Deployment Wizard