How to Make a Setup ?

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I finally finished my project .. but i need to do a setup project for my application ,i searched on how to do this ..but the application didn't work.. someone i asked told me that in my application i can't do the simple setup that i found
My application contains 3 games and a profile.
the project tree is like the following:

Project 1 (game 1) (WinForm)
Project 2 (game 2) (WinForm)
Project 3 (game 3) (WPF)
Main Project (Profile)(WPF)

the 3 projects are linked to the main one
In each project, when the user finishes a game, an Xml file is written from the "project i" in the Debug folder of the main project (i=1/2 or 3) using the path
..\\..\\..\\MainProject\\..etc

Plus I'm using music and photos in each project
And i want to put an image for the game.

thanks in advance

Posted 8-Mar-12 5:43am

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Possibly the easiest way for you to solve your problem is to create a Visual Studio Installer Project. This allows you to just choose the output of the projects and include them in a single installer.

You can find more details here[^]. Even though this is for VS 2005, you can use the same process in VS 2008 and VS 2010.

Posted 8-Mar-12 6:33am

Pete O'Hanlon

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Member 8403770 9-Mar-12 15:22pm

I'm not getting a successful result :S

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-08T06:31:00

When you release your program - which is what a setup program is all about, after all - you won't have a debug folder! If noithing else, you should be releasing the Release version which is generally smaller, faster and contains better optimised code and no debug information.

So, no debug folder - which means you would be trying to write to a folder under your application, which will have been installed in the "Program Files" (or "Program Files x86") folder. The trouble with that is that it really isn't a good idea to keep data files of any sort there - if nothing else, changes here are restricted to admin (win 7) or seen as virus activity.

Instead, use

C#

string path = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData);

and check if it contains a folder for your application. If it does, use it.
If it doesn't, create it and use it.

After that, it is a simple matter to make a setup program - you just have to add a Setup and Deployment Project to your solution and follow the instructions, pretty much.