After extracting the ZIP file to your desktop you'll see one of two folders based on the license type you purchased.
InstantForum.NET Developer License customers will see a InstantForum2010DEV folder containing the following files…
InstantForum.NET End User License customers will see a InstantForum2010EUL folder containing the following files…
Once the InstantForum2010EUL or InstantForum2010DEV folder is on your desktop for local development within Visual Studio.NET we would suggest you copy the contents of this folder to a suitable location on your hard-drive. For example for local ASP.NET development you would copy the entire contents of the InstantForum2010EUL or InstantForum2010DEV folder to your C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\ folder.
If you don't intend to work with the InstantForum.NET Visual Studio.NET solution locally on your computer you can skup this step and simply upload your files to a shared hosting environment.
Additional Information
After extracting InstantForum.NET you'll see 3 new folders and a single Visual Studio.NET solution file...
InsantASP.Common (Source Code)
This folder is only avialable with our developer license. This contains all the source code for our InstantASP.Common framework. There are 3 sub folders InstantASP.Common (contains the core InstantASP.Common business code), InstantASP.common.Data (contains the core data access code) & InstantASP.Common.UI (contains the core UI server controls).
InstantASP.InstantForum (Source Code)
This folder contains the source code for InstantForum.NET. There are 3 sub folders InstantASP.InstantForum (contains InstantForum.NET business logic), InstantASP.InstantForum.Data (contains the InstantForum.NET data provider) & InstantASP.InstantForum.UI (contains the code-behind for the various InstantKB.NET skin controls)
InstantForum2010 (Web Site Files)
This folder contains all the web site files & folders. This is the folder you will need to copy into production or upload to your shared hosting provider. The soruce code folders are only required for local development when working with InstantForum.NET within Visual Studio.NET. Upon compliation within Visual Studio.NET the source code is compiled into the various assemblies within the InstantKB20\Bin directory.
Visual Studio.NET Solution (InstantForumDeveloper.sln / InstantForumEndUser.sln)
This file will depend on the license you purchased. To work with the Visual Studio.NET solution file copy all the folders listed above & this solution file into your web site root directly typically c:\inetpub\wwwroot\ . Ensure the InstantForum2010 folder is marked as a web application within IIS. You should then be able to double click the solution file to open all the required projects within Visual Studio.NET. If your using Windows Vista / Windows 7 you will need to run Visual Studio.NET in the context of an administrator.
You should grant write & modify permissions to the "Uploads" and "App_Data" folder within the InstantForum.NET web application folder. You will need to allow write & modify permissions for the windows account under which your IIS application pool runs. We would suggest the following steps…
- Open IIS and identify which application pool InstantForum.NET is running under.
- Go to the Advanced Settings for the application pool within IIS and make a note of Identity / Windows Account under which the application pool runs.
- Navigate to the root of your InstantForum.NET web site folder within Windows Explorer
- Right click the "Uploads" folder and go to Properties. Click the security tab and add the windows account used by your application pool. Ensure you allow this account to write & modify files. Click the Advanced button and select the Propagate permissions to all child folders & files checkbox. Save these change.
- Right click the "App_Data" folder and go to Properties. Click the security tab and add the windows account used by your application pool. Ensure you allow this account to write & modify files. Click the Advanced button and select the Propagate permissions to all child folders & files checkbox. Save these change.
If you don't have access to IIS or the operating system to adjust folder permissions your hosting company may provide a web based control panel which allows you to modify permissions to specific folders in your hosting environment.
The "Upload" folder permissions are needed to ensure users can upload custom profile photos or upload images within posts. The "App_Data" folder permissions are reuiqred to ensure we can update the devices.dat file with mobile browser requests.