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Now let’s make an installation project for this program

• Double-click Primary output from WindowsApplication(or name of your project) in your setup project

You can change the manufacturer property

• Select the setup project name
• Change the manufacturer property to something more appropriate

• Click application folder on the left
• Right click primary output

• Create shortcut for primary output for (name of project)
• Change to “Shortcut to calculator”

 

• Drag and drop to user desktop folder

• Select it and go to properties

• Change icon by selecting Browse…

• Click Browse again

• Select User’s Desktop from the dropdown and click Add File

• Select an ICO file

• Press OK

• Press OK again

Adds an iconname.ico file


Modify Properties
In solution explorer

• Right-click calculator setup project
• Select View
• Select User Interface

• Select each section and you can change the properties in the properties window

• Got back to File System and right click on primary output

• create shortcut
• call it calculator
• go to User’s program menu
• Add folder

• Name it
• Drag application folder calculator to user programs

• Select an icon
• Build
• install

Now it installs to our start menu
And it installs on the desktop

Copy all files in the setup project and burn to a CD

Here are the files it installs: