.NET: bundling all files in one installation

Question

i have a vb.net application

i published it

it made an app files diretory, setup.exe, and some other file

i need everything to be in one file because the users are not very computer savy

is there a way to bundle everything in one installation file?

Answer 1

You could try ILMerge. It will allow you to merge multiple assemblies into 1. You could set it up in a Post Build Event to merge all of your assemblies into 1 exe.

Answer 2

You could bundle the files into a self-extracting ZIP file.