Deployment
When you've got your application just how you like it, all arranged and responsive and fancy, you'll want to share it. You have several options. You can create an archive of your files and send them as an e-mail to your friends and family, from which they can extract the files into the folder of their choice and run your application. Or, if you like, you can use the VS.NET Setup Project template to create a project that produces a Microsoft Setup Information (MSI) file containing your application's files. Recipients can use this MSI file to install the application into the folder of their choice.
Of course, the problem with both of these techniques is that as soon as you share your application, that's when you find the crushing bug ...
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