Murach's Visual Basic 2005
How to deploy an application

As you develop a Visual Basic application, you'll need to deploy it to a target system in order to test it thoroughly. And, of course, once the application is finished, you'll need to deploy it to users' systems. So this chapter shows you three ways you can deploy applications from a network or web server using Visual Studio.
Chapter 25 How to deploy an application
An introduction to deploying Windows applications 792
How XCopy works 792
How ClickOnce works 792
How a Setup program works 792
How to use XCopy 794
How to create a release build 794
How to copy the release build to the client 794
How to use ClickOnce 796
How to publish an application 796
How to select the files that are published 798
How to select the prerequisites 798
How to set the update options 800
How to set the publish options 800
How to install an application 802
How update an application 802
How to create and use a Setup program 804
How to create a Setup project 804
How to add output files to a Setup project 806
How to complete a Setup project 806
How to use a Setup program to install an application 810
How to deploy database applications 812
Using ClickOnce deployment 812
Using a Setup program 814


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