Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

The File System Editor

Every client install involves copying files off the install media and placing those files in specific locations on the end user’s system. This is the File System editor’s domain. In essence, it maps which files go where. The interface for this editor (see Figure 12.7) is meant to mimic the folder structure on the target system, so we have a left pane that shows the various default folders we can copy files to, and the right pane identifies the files to copy into each folder. By default, you see that the primary output files that we selected earlier in the wizard are already placed within the Application Folder destination.

Figure 12.7 The File System Editor.

The folders that are listed in the File System editor are actually ...