Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Creating a Setup Project

The goal of this chapter is to demonstrate 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 select Add, New Project. In the New Project dialog box, select the Other Project Types, Setup and Deployment, InstallShield Limited Edition templates subfolder and select the InstallShield Limited Edition Project template, as shown in Figure 49.2. Name the new project SetupExample and click OK.

FIGURE 49.2 Adding a new setup project to the solution.

When you click OK, Visual Studio ...