Uisng Windows Installer to create application mapping to existing DLL

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From: Ender (endymion853_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/23/04 

Date: 23 Feb 2004 13:50:44 -0800

We have developed an application in which we are using a HTTP Handler
we developed to essentially pre-process files with .XML extensions
prior to sending them back to the client.

Everything works great, except I can't figure out how to install the
application using the Microsoft Installer that ships with Visual
Studio 2003. In development, I can go into the Application Mappings
under IIS manager and change the XML extension type to map to
aspnet_isapi.dll. We need to map to the aspnet_isapi.dll so the
handler gets invoked upon requests.

Everything I have come across to setup application mappings requires
you to deploy the DLL you want to map to. We don't want our
appliction to install the aspnet_isapi.dll as part of it's
installation. Anyone have any ides?

To put it in a sentance, Does anyone know how to create an application
mapping in IIS witout having to install the DLL you are mapping to
using the Microsoft Visual studio installer?

Thanks
Endymion Keats

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