Murach's Visual Basic 2008
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 764
How XCopy works 764
How ClickOnce works 764
How a Setup program works 764
How to use XCopy 766
How to create a release build 766
How to copy the release build to the client 766
How to use ClickOnce 768
How to publish an application 768
How to select the files that are published 770
How to select the prerequisites 770
How to set the update options 772
How to set the publish options 772
How to install an application 774
How update an application 774
How to create and use a Setup program 776
How to create a Setup project 776
How to add output files to a Setup project 778
How to complete a Setup project 780
How to use a Setup program to install an application 782
How to deploy database applications 784
Using ClickOnce deployment 784
Using a Setup program 786


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