Building and Deploying the Windows Installer Package

To create your Windows Installer distributable package, right-click the setup project name in Solution Explorer and select Build. As an alternative, you can choose the appropriate Build command from the Build menu. This generates a bootstrapper named Setup.exe and the Windows Installer package with an .msi extension, which in our case is named SetupExample.msi. The output will be available in the Express project subfolder that contains files you need to distribute to your customers for installing your application. They run the Setup.exe bootstrapper that correctly starts the Windows Installer package.

Customizing Releases

InstallShield can generate different kinds of distribution media, such ...

Get Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.