Visual Studio 2012 and Setup Projects

Out of the box setup and deployment projects no longer exist in Visual Studio with the release of VS 2012.  However, Microsoft officially recommends using a product called InstallShield Limited Edition for Visual Studio which can be downloaded here.  This installs a project template in Visual Studio called InstallShield Limited Edition Project.  There is no official documentation for how to use and configure the product.  You have to rely on other blog posts and a few videos.  From what I can tell, it works great for windows applications.  For a web application, I would not recommend using an installer.  You have to jump through a lot of hoops to configure the installer for this type of application, and it is so much easier to simply have your network admin set up a virtual directory, and copy the files from a location where you have published your files.