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In order to add an IIS web service extension to a packaging project, users go to the IIS view of the Visual Designer mode.
•With a click on the Create new... button, the options menu is displayed. Click on Web service extension to invoke the New Web Service Extension Wizard.
•As an alternative access to the very same wizard, users may click on the Web service extensions node within the IIS object tree structure on the left hand side of the IIS view, and click on the Add new web service extension button that is displayed within the details pane at the right-hand side.
Work your way through the steps of the wizard to define all required properties for the new item.
At any time, using the Next or Back buttons, which are displayed at the bottom of the wizard dialog, allows to navigate within the already processed steps.
To exit the wizard without creating a new object, use the Cancel button, also located at the bottom of the wizard dialog.
Description
The name of the new web service extension file has to be given as an identifier string: it has to be a unique, not empty alphanumeric string of max. 72 characters length. It may contain the ASCII characters A-Z (a-z), digits, underscores (_), or periods (.), and must begin with either a letter or an underscore.
Component
Each web service extension object has to be related to a component item of the packaging project.
To select an existing component as parent object of the web service extension item, users click on the downwards-pointing arrow at the right-hand side of the component selector control. A list of existing components is displayed. The actual selection is done with a click on any of the given components.
To create a new component for the web service extension object, users click on the browse button [...] at the right-hand side of the component control. The common dialog type Select Component is displayed, ready for creating and selecting components.
File
Please provide the full path to the extension file. Usually a property is provided, resolving to the short file name path.
The square brackets at the right-hand side of the input field indicate, that it is a special input field, allowing packagers to use Properties and other variable packaging project information for the value definition. Please refer to the MSI formatted string field section for further details on how to handle this typical kind of user interface control in RayPack.
Group
This string of max. 255 characters length is used to identify groups of extensions. IIS offers specific management functions which are executable on groups rather than single object, which makes it easier to maintain a clear and stable overal system state.
Attributes
•Allow - activate the checkbox to set the web service extension to Allow
•Deletable - activate the checkbox in order to allow that the web service extension file can be deleted from the IIS via the IIS Manager interface
Use the summary page to check the correctness of the web service extension properties that were defined during the previous wizard steps.
•If all properties are set as required, click Process to finally create the new item.
•If changes are due, click Back until the wizard step with the incorrect property definition(s) is displayed and make modifications as required.
Please note that changes in an early step may lead to different defaults or options in any later step. Therefore, please verify that all steps contain the desired settings whilst NEXTing to the summary page again.
Once the new web service extension object has been created, the wizard can be closed by using the Finish button at its lower right corner. The IIS view is updated, and the tree structure of existing items contains the newly created object.