How to deploy the three tier architecture (Windows Application)

Question

Hi to all I have a problem related to create a setup program for my project. In my project under one solution file there is three projects 1)Presentation Layer 2) Web services 3) DAL (Data Access Layer) In my setup and deployment program i want to do DAL setup installed on one machine Web sevice on another machine and Presentaion layer on another machine. When I run the DAL setup it will ask for Database where is stored ie Mdf and ldf file. When I run the WebService setup it will ask me for DAL layer where it is installed and When I run the Presentation Layer Setup it will ask for WebService The concept is clear but not getting how to achieve this setup and deployment activity? Please help me.

Ajay Utekar · Answer

Thanks for reply My program's architecture is PresentationLayer talks with WebService and webservice will communicate with DAL and DAL to Database. In this case how Webservices will communicate with DAL and as per ur suggetion DALs dll is place at Presentaion Layer So what is the Advantage of that?

Mahesh Chand · Answer

I would suggest to put your DAL (just a DLL) on the same machine with your UI application (Presentation layer). DAL actually is nothing but the code that talks to the database. Webservice and database can be on a seperate machines. Instead of asking the path/URL of server for Webservice and database from the installer I would put these values in the application config file. Since application is the caller application it will take those values to make connection with the webservice and databases. I hope that helps.