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Joachim - 21 Apr 2007 07:50 GMT

Which is the best way to build an installer for my .NET application? Setup
project or Setup wizard? I have tried the MSDN help and googling about this
but haven't found any good information on how to do. Where can I find
information about this? Links? Books?

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Phil Wilson - 23 Apr 2007 20:53 GMT

AFAIK, a setup wizard is just a simplified way of building an installer.
It's likely to be inadequate if you're doing much more than installing a
couple of files. A setup project has a full IDE.

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> Which is the best way to build an installer for my .NET application? Setup
> project or Setup wizard? I have tried the MSDN help and googling about
> this
> but haven't found any good information on how to do. Where can I find
> information about this? Links? Books?

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Joachim - 24 Apr 2007 05:18 GMT

Thanks Phil!

Anyone else on books or good links on how to use Setup project?

Regards,
Joachim

> AFAIK, a setup wizard is just a simplified way of building an installer.
> It's likely to be inadequate if you're doing much more than installing a
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> > but haven't found any good information on how to do. Where can I find
> > information about this? Links? Books?

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Phil Wilson - 26 Apr 2007 16:07 GMT

http://simple-talk.com/dotnet/visual-studio/getting-started-with-setup-projects/

http://simple-talk.com/dotnet/visual-studio/visual-studio-setup---projects-and-c
ustom-actions/

http://simple-talk.com/dotnet/visual-studio/updates-to-setup-projects/

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> Thanks Phil!
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>> > but haven't found any good information on how to do. Where can I find
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