December 2003
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
10h 42m
English
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Developing Installers
Apart from assisting in development and debugging of applications, Visual Studio provides integrated toolsets of creating installers for Windows and Web applications. (Windows applications are typically installed on individual desktops, whereas Web applications are typically installed on a Web server or a Web farm [multiple servers].) This functionality is provided by the Setup Wizard project types (see Figure 5.36).
Figure 5.36. The Setup Project Wizard.
In this section, you'll develop an installer for the Windows application that you created earlier. There are two basic ways of achieving that: One is using the Setup Project ...