If you want an easy way to deploy your solutions to SharePoint 2010, you came to the right place! :)

For my WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 solutions, I usually use a project called SharePoint Solution Installer from Codeplex. But unfortunately, you can’t use it with SharePoint 2010 because it is not compatible.

After goggling for a while, I have found a guy who made some changes to SharePoint Solution Installer source code, and now it works like a charm for SharePoint 2010. (You can check his post here)

How to use this?

1. First you need to download the attached zip file.
2. Extract the content to a local folder.
3. Make sure you have successfully built your project.
4. Package your project.
5. Copy the WSP file inside Bin\Debug or Bin\Release and place it in the resources folder.
6. Adjust the Setup.exe.config so it look like the one below. You need to adjust SolutionId, SolutionFile and SolutionTitle. You will find the SolutionId in the folder pkgobj\Debug\package_manifest.xml or pkgobj\Release\package_manifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
	<appSettings>
		<add key="BannerImage" value="Default"/>
		<add key="LogoImage" value="None"/>
		<add key="FeatureScope" value="Site"/>
		<add key="EULA" value="Resources\EULA.rtf"/>
		<add key="SolutionId" value="599020e9-e1d3-4a91-8522-b18072d180b2"/>
		<add key="SolutionFile" value="Resources\yoursolution.wsp"/>
		<add key="SolutionTitle" value=""/>
		<add key="SolutionVersion" value="1.0.0.0"/>
		<add key="UpgradeDescription" value="Upgrades {SolutionTitle} on all frontend web servers in the SharePoint farm."/>
		<add key="RequireDeploymentToCentralAdminWebApplication" value="false"/>
		<add key="RequireDeploymentToAllContentWebApplications" value="false"/>
		<add key="DefaultDeployToAdminWebApplications" value="false"/>
		<add key="DefaultDeployToContentWebApplications" value="false"/>
	</appSettings>
	<startup>
		<supportedRuntime version="v2.0.50727"/>
	</startup>
</configuration>