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Dollarslice
Dollarslice

Reputation: 10314

visual studio project deployment file confusion?

I have gone through all the steps to deploy an XNA VS2008 project and created an installer. I built the project and now have a release file with 3 folders containing dependencies in .msi format, a steup.exe and a solutionName.msi

But which file is the right one? setup.exe doesn't seem to work outside of the folder. Am I meant to send people the whole zipped folder? or just the .msi? Will they have to separately install all the .msi dependencies or will setup.exe do that for them?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 43

Answers (1)

Andrew Barber
Andrew Barber

Reputation: 40150

setup.exe is meant to check the dependencies, and run the proper msi files based on what is needed.

You could ZIP the folder all up into a self-extracting EXE which unzips to a temp dir and then runs the setup.exe, as one way to package everything together for installation.

Upvotes: 1

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