Creating a Setup Project

The goal of this chapter is to exemplify how you create a setup project for a Windows client application. First, create a new WPF project with Visual Basic and name it DeploymentDemo. This project just serves as the demo application to be deployed. When the new project is ready, right-click the solution name in Solution Explorer and then select Add, New Project. In the New Project dialog select the Other Project Types, Setup and Deployment, Visual Studio Installer templates subfolder and then choose the Setup Wizard project template, as shown in Figure 54.1. Name the new project SetupExample and then click OK.

Figure 54.1 Adding a new setup project to the solution.

The Setup Wizard is the most common project template ...

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