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Haider Ali
Haider Ali

Reputation: 2785

How to make C# winform application portable

I have developed a WinForms application with C# 4.5. I want to make it portable, in the sense that it should not need to be installed. To deploy this application, I would like to just copy and paste the folder of application file. Like Tally or VLC Media player.

The environment and dependencies are as follows

Please suggest a way how to do it.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2684

Answers (2)

labilbe
labilbe

Reputation: 3574

For each of your project's references, you should verify Copy Local property is set to True. This way, all the references will be copied in your project's bin folder (at compile time).

This should be suficient for a copy/paste deployment of your bin folder.

Keep in mind,

no program is an island -- Don Box

so deployment machines should need at least target framework installed.

.NET Framework will first search inside bin folder and if reference is not found, it will search the GAC (Global Assembly Cache).

Upvotes: 4

Aashish Kumar
Aashish Kumar

Reputation: 11

XCopy deployment can be used to deploy your application.

Upvotes: 0

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