Deploying Your Application
In Visual Studio, beginning with release 6, a special wizard walks you through the creation of a Windows-based installation for your application. Although you may not have a Visual Studio–based product now, and although you may use a different vendor's in the future, you can learn a lot about such products by following the process described here.
Visual Studio's Package and Deployment Wizard does the following:
Compiles the application and compresses the files.
Creates a setup program that your users can use to install the application.
Determines the best fit for installation floppy disks, creates the numerous setup disks, and splits files across multiple floppy disks for extra large files. The Package and Deployment ...
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