Any unzip-and-run Visual-Studio or third party free tool?

I usually use ClickOnce as my publication method, but I hate sending a bunch of files to peop开发者_开发知识库le and having to say "Please unzip and run setup". All I need to do is this simple thing. A program that puts all files together in a single file, then unzip them to a temp folder and runs Setup. I haven't check very deep in Visual Studio features (I'm using 2010 Professional version) but so far I haven't found any way to achieve this.

Check out a install package builder like Advanced Installer. It will package it as a exe or msi install for you. You can even have it build the solution each time for you! The freeware version should work fine for simple installs.

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I'm sorry I thought the freeware version was unlimited :( Apologies.

What exactly is the problem? You can build standalone applications that don't need setup at all with VS2010, C/C++. Simply deploy required dll's in the same folder and that's it.

Can you tell what do you want to achieve? Is it .NET project you want to deploy, new project you want to create? There are setup projects that create an MSI that can be deployed as a single file. But that's for windows.

I know a better one: ClickOnce.