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 d开发者_运维知识库o that for them?

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.