After uninstalling a web deployment the virtual directory entry still exists though the physical directory is deleted. Is there a way that can be deleted? Would really appreciate if someone has a solution. Thank you.

Hi Ajay,

Actually this is a known behavior of Web Setup projects. The reason Web Setup projects don't remove Virtual Directories at uninstall becase the setup msi doesn't know if the Virtual Directory already existed before the new website was installed. If you want the Virtual Directory to be removed, simply delete it from the web server manually after the uninstall has completed.

Hope this helps,

~Merrie McGaw MSFT

Hi Ajay,

Actually this is a known behavior of Web Setup projects. The reason Web Setup projects don't remove Virtual Directories at uninstall becase the setup msi doesn't know if the Virtual Directory already existed before the new website was installed. If you want the Virtual Directory to be removed, simply delete it from the web server manually after the uninstall has completed.

Hope this helps,

~Merrie McGaw MSFT

Hi;
I have also experienced something strange. If I install using msi file, then I manually add files or dlls to the bin directory , when I uninstall the msi, the files manually are still there and the directory is still marked as a Virtual directory in iis.
Regards
Shivam

Hi Shivam,

That behavior is to be expected as well. The msi can only remove files that it has added to the physical directory. If you've added more, uninstalling the MSI will have no affect on the manually added files.

Cheers,

~Merrie McGaw - MSFT