Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Installer for Deployment in VS2008

Every time I build a project, I get a .exe and I generally share out this executable. But it looks very good if we can build an Installer for the Deployment of the software.
If we have the executable and all its dependencies, we can easily build an installer in Visual Studio 2008. Step to step guildlines are provided at

http://www.fordevs.com/2009/07/steps-to-create-setup-and-deployment-project-in-dot-net-vs-2008.html

Give the executable to VS 2008, and it does all the trick. VS 2008 creates the .msi and setup.exe files. Just run the generated setup.exe. That's it. Its simple and wonderful.