My way to deploy Sharepoint Solution

VS.NET extension for Sharepoint 2007 is a great tool to create webparts, features and site definitions. But I found it's not very not that easy to package the solution and deploy to production servers. I need to create manifest.xml and a ddf file and have to use makecab.exe tool. I don't why MS doesn't auotmatically genereate in the solution.

And my simple way to deploy the solution is

Find the setup.bat and solution folder under binDebug (usually it's generated after you build and deploy the solution in VS.NET)
Copy your release version dlls to solution folder
Open setup.bat and change "TargetUrl" to your production server.
Copy these file and folder to production
Run "setup /i"

and it works great.

I've also find a Sharepont Solution Installer tool in here:

http://blog.mondosoft.com/ontolica/archive/2007/03/14/Generic-SharePoint-2007-Solution-Installer.aspx

it sounds a nice tool but I didn't try it yet.

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