Hey Rlusian,

welcome to webservice newsgroup.
As for the how to properly redistribute the WSE components together without
own application, here are some of my understanding and suggestion:

1. Surely the prefred means is using our WSE runtime redistributable
package (we provide both ones for WSE 2.0 SP3 and WSE 3.0 release....), so
we can made a bootstrapper setup component which check the client
environment and determine whether to launch the WSE redistributable
package....

Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0 SP3 for Microsoft .NET Redistributable
Runtime MSI
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8070e1de-22e1-4c78-
ab9f-07a7fcf1b6aa&displaylang=en

2. If you're wantting to manually deploy those WSE components (assemblies)
to the target machine, we should not simply xcopy them into our
application's directory (espeically for ASP.NET application since asp.net
dosn't support strong-named assembly in private bin dir...).  We should
install the assemblies into GAC(the WSE redistributable package will
install them into GAC). This can make the WSE components shared to all the
application that reference it...   Also, make sure your application's setup
package also including MS's EULA for the WSE components ;-)

Thanks,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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We have an application which uses WSE 2.0 and which will be installed using
InstallShield.  We need the WSE 2.0 installation to be handled silently
using
InstallShield, and we have a modular app which may have multiple Web
services.

I have searched the Web and found conflicting accounts of how to deploy WSE
2.0 with an application.  What are the supported methods for installing a
Web
Service along with WSE 2.0?

1) install the WSE 2.0 redistributable
2) just copy the Microsoft.Web.Services2.dll to the application's directory
(i.e., xcopy install)

Which of these methods are supported?  If only method 1 is supported, is
there a merge module for WSE 2.0 SP3?  If not, how is this best handled
from
InstallShield?

One of our sister applications has a number of Web services, and the
installation has been problematic, with
installation/reinstallation/uninstallation issues.  In the end they just
installed it with every module which involved a Web Service, even if this
meant multiple WSE installations in a single user install.