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Mark Lalor
Mark Lalor

Reputation: 7887

Visual Studio Publishing C# .NET Applications

I want to publish a C# application and I don't want to use oneclick or whatever its called I want to make a single exe so I'm trying to follow this tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No1paeGvBtw

I'm using Express, the free version of visual studio and my question is can you do this with express because it seems like I cant just open "Visual Studio" I can only open "Visual C#" etc. so at about 2:13 in the video I try to add a new project but the only installed templates are Visual C# and XNA as you can see below enter image description here

My questions overall are can I accomplish this with Visual Studio 2010 Express and can I open Visual Studio, not specifically a certain language but generic, like it seems in the video.

Thanks

Edit: I'm in 8th grade so the academic version looks good.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1610

Answers (3)

evasilchenko
evasilchenko

Reputation: 1870

You cannot create this type of project in Visual Studio Express. Limited functionality is part of what makes it a free product. If you need to create a deployment project, you will need to download a trial of visual studio professional and then you will have this option.

You can see this here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2kt85ked.aspx (In the Note section)

UPDATE

You can download a free 90 day trial here: (Which you can later extend by 30 days I believe)

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/try

Or if you are set up as a small business you can get it for very cheap from BizSpark (don't remember how much now) from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/Default.aspx

Or you can purchase the Academic Edition:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116948

The rest of the legal options that I am aware of involve paying retail

P.S. The trial version is fully functional that you can use for 4 months.

Upvotes: 3

Jonathan Henson
Jonathan Henson

Reputation: 8206

If you want to go the free route, use nsis. It is more flexible and less trouble prone anyways. There is an eclipse plugin, I would imagine that there is a visual studio plugin as well.

Here is the VS 2010 nsis plugin. I have never used it, but if it is half as good as eclipse nsis, then it already kicks the visual studio installer templates' ass. http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NSISPlus_GUI

Upvotes: 1

user153923
user153923

Reputation:

Visual Studio Express has always excluded Setup and Deployment options, but their website used to state that up front.

Previous versions also excluded Windows Mobile applications. VS2010 Express has a Windows 7 Phone version, but does not support the older Windows Mobile devices (i.e. Pocket PCs) at all.

Inno Setup is a free, fairly easy tool to create nice setup projects with. It also has an active forum for support.

Upvotes: 2

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