Web setup is a special setup format that you will use this setup format when you want to distribute your setup through the Internet and you do not want your end-user to download all the components of your application; you just want to be downloaded the components that he/she selected in the setup wizard. Web setup programs needs an Internet connection to install your application.

 

This setup format is very useful when your application is big and the user normally does not install all possible components. For example, let's suppose you are distributing a Windows Mobile application for three different Windows Mobile platforms and each package's size is 10 Mb. If you use the Normal Setup, the generated setup program's size would be approximately 30 Mb, and the end-user would download all the 30 Mb to actually install your application in only one platform. If you use the Web setup in this case, your end-user will download the setup program that will have approximately 400 Kb, and then, during the installation process, the setup program will download only the package that will really be installed.

 

You must define the URL of the folder that will contain the setup data (web components) in your web server, changing the Default Data URL property in the Project Information section of the Project Properties dialog. After generating the web setup program, you must upload all generated web components to the folder you have defined in the Default Data URL property.

 

To generate the web setup program, select Build > Generate Web Setup menu command.