Using the Setup Project Wizard to Create a Setup Project for a Windows Application

As discussed previously, the Setup Project Wizard offers an easy-to-use interface encompassing the most commonly used setup project options. You can use the Setup Project Wizard to create an installer in four simple steps. If you need to include more functionality in an installer than the wizard supports, you can manually enhance the installer that the wizard creates.

To illustrate the process of creating an installer for a Windows Application project, start with an existing project or create a test project for deployment. Any Windows Application project will do; our goal here is to create an installer package that will allow you to deploy the application on a ...

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