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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 "V开发者_C百科isual 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

Visual Studio Publishing C# .NET Applications

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.


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.


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.


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

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