Create a Setup in Visual Studio

Step to make Setup of Project in Visual Studio.

1.

From file menu  new  Project  select  Setup and Deployemnet

Step2 :

Right click on setup  view  File 

Step 3

Right click Application Folder   Add   project Output

Step 4  in Project Output you can add file or document file xml file

Click Ok

Merely add one or more of the files that is vital for your application by clicking on File…. Now that you have you files in place. Solution Explore /Setup /Detected Depences /primary Output

Step 5

Now to Create Shortcut  

Right Click on primary Out  Select first Option

To  Assign icon Select Shortcut which you create   right Click  Property Window

Select icon option  browse icon  select .ico  file from you machine if you don’t have ico file then first create that file   drag and drop Shortcut into users’s Dekstop Folder

The next item you find of immense importance is the User Interface Editor. Inside of this editor you may eliminate or include dialogs that are needed for this install project.

Right Click Setup  view  user interface  right click  Add diolog 

Then Select customer information  ok

The following screenshot is the default User Interface that is created when I initially created this setup project The only variation is that I have added a Customer Information dialog.

Prerequisites Installation in Windows Installer
Most applications have prerequisites: Components such as the .NET Framework runtime must be available on a target computer in order for the application to run. The deployment tools in Visual Studio include the capability to automatically detect the existence of components during installation and install a predetermined set of prerequisites — a process known as bootstrapping.

To choose which prerequisites to install

1. In Solution Explorer, select the deployment project and Right Click
2. Click Properties.
3. In the Property Pages dialog box, expand the Configuration Properties node, and then select the Build property page.
4. Click the Prerequisites button.
5. In the Prerequisites dialog box, make sure that the Create setup program to install prerequisite components box is checked.
6. In the Choose which prerequisites to install list, check the prerequisites that you wish to install, and then click OK.

To specify the download location for prerequisites

• In Solution Explorer, select the deployment project, right click.
• Click Properties.
• In the Property Pages dialog box, expand the Configuration Properties node, and then select the Build property page.
• Click the Prerequisites button.
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In the Prerequisites dialog box, choose a location:

• If you want to deploy the installers for the prerequisites to a vendor, click Download prerequisites from the component vendor's web site.
• If you want to deploy the installers for the prerequisites to the same location as your application installer, click Download prerequisites from the same location as my application.

• If you want to deploy the installers for the prerequisites to a different location, click Download
• Click OK to continue.

Out put File name   This will indicate where your setup or Exe file will build…..

Final :   Now Build the Setup