Hour 22. Deploying a Solution

Now you've learned how to create a C# application, and you're just itching to create some project and send it to the world. Fortunately, Visual Studio includes the tools you need to create a setup program for an application. In this hour, you'll learn how to use these tools to create a setup program that a user can run to install an application you've developed. In fact, you'll be creating a setup program for the Picture Viewer application you created in Hour 1, “A C# Programming Tour.”

The highlights of this hour include the following:

• Creating a custom setup program

• Installing the output of a project

• Changing the installation location of a file

• Specifying build options

• Adding files to an installation

• Creating a custom folder on installation

• Creating a shortcut on the Start menu