Chapter 51. Setup and Deployment Projects with InstallShield for Visual Studio

When you deliver your application to your customers, you do not tell them it supports the XCopy deployment and you do not provide technical explanations on how .NET applications work. This is because modern applications require a convenient setup procedure that can install them in a professional fashion, put files in the appropriate places, create shortcuts in the Windows user interface, check for system requirements, and perform components registration. The users are just required to select the target folder ...

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