Building and Deployment
The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build environment for Visual Studio. The build process is described in an XML-based project file. MSBuild replaces traditional .mak files. The project file describes the build process, build configuration, and input and output.
For deployment, Visual Studio 2008 supports traditional deployment based on Windows Installer technology. With Windows Installer technology, an application is packaged in a Setup.exe file, which is then deployed to the local machine or a public share. The Setup.exe program installs the application on the local machine. ClickOnce deployment is available in Visual Studio 2008 as an alternate deployment strategy. ClickOnce deploys an application from a central ...
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