Publishing::: ClickOnce or Windows Installer

While publishing, how can I select ClickOnce or Windows Installer. 开发者_开发知识库 Where can the choice be made? Thanks Furqan

If you want to create an MSI, I would recommend using WiX.

The downside to the VS Deployment Projects is that they require Visual Studio to build (which should be unnecessary on a CI build server).

WiX has a bit more of a learning curve (and the odd gotcha too), but is much easier in the long run. Lots of online resources, including the WiX category here at StackOverflow.

You can setup clickonce deployment in your applications properties page. Right click your project in solution explorer and select properties. For windows installer you need to create a new windows setup project.

Both are pretty easy:

clickonce: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228283(VS.80).aspx

Setup and deployment project: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k3bb4tfd%28VS.80%29.aspx