Introduction to Application Deployment
Deploying an application always seems like it's such a simple process to an end user. All the end user needs to do is double-click Setup.exe and the program he's trying to install works like magic and installs the files needed for the application. As a developer, you know that creating deployment projects with the tools provided by Microsoft has been a nightmare.
Using Visual Basic 6 Setup and Deployment Wizard to deploy forms-based applications was a frightening thought. When an installation was complete on a target machine, you had to cross your fingers, and pray that when the machine rebooted there would be no blue screen of death, and that some core operating system file would not be accidentally overwritten ...
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