Easy deploy v instal question with VS2005 1

[tag141]

Hope you all had a good holiday period and are looking forward to yet another new year.

So, I have finished my application apart from a few minor details. It works superbly on my testing machine. I need to have it on another machine and so I have created a deployment package. This deploys what I want and I am able to run my app on the other computer...but (ain't there always a but) it doesn't appear to physically install anything. The application is installed into something like c:\documents and settings\user\start menu\.....myapp.exe. When I navigate to the folder that contains my app, the application isn't really in there. It has a shortcut and calls it an 'application reference'.

TIA

So, is there a difference between installation and deployment? Why is there no physical application programme? Can I get the programme to install to a properly named folder/directory.

 

[Sorwen]

if you are using the click once (or whatever it is called) it is installed under your user application directory (or somewhere aroud there). If you want to control where and how it installs you need to create a setup project (usually in the project you want to install). if you have the msdn library installed you can easily find the step-by-step in there. I can't find my link to the online step-by-step, but if you search around the online msdn you should find it.

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[tag141]

Now that's exactly what I wanted to know. So deployment is just a very quick way of 'installing' the programme for one user on one machine? Whereas making a setup project allows far more control over who and where.

As it's New Year and I'm feeling in a good mood, have a star...

Have a good new year.