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Deployment and publish, the old way

I have this application that I program in VS2005. Now I'm ready to deploy and I discover that it's not like VB6 that I'm use to.

What I want is to have the old Windows installer way of publish. I try the Clickone way and I'm not satisfy of not having the installation made in the Program Files Folder. I try creating a new solution with the VS template "Setup wizard" and I import the application inside this solution and still that is not what I want.

I want a file call "setup.exe" or and MSI file that install my (allready program) application to the Program Files Folder. I do need the uninstall feature and a normal Shortcut in the StartMenu. I do need for my application to add and set new registry key/value and that will be nice if the setup.exe can take care of that to.

Thanks for your help

Franbel

Arthur_Wood

There is absolutely no reason to have a Setup.exe any longer. So-called 'installation' of a VB.NET application consists of copying the entire /BIN folder contents to the target PC, and that is all there is to it. There is nothing to 'install' and Uninstall consists of deleting those files from the PC. There is nothing that needs to be done with or to the registry.

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franbel

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Thanks Arthur

But.... In the /BIN Folder ther is sub directory and 18 files for each of the release and the debug folder. I dont want to send all those files to my client and tell him to copy that. What I need is an installation process. Plus in my application, I programed some RegistryKey read. So I do need to create those registry automaticly on my client computer. And I dont want to make that manualy on all computer.

Arthur_Wood

then you can create a deployment project (that is a new Visual Studio Project type) and follow the instructions of the Wizard.

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