How to create a Setup.exe file in Visual Studio 2022

In this video, we will show you how to create an EXE file using Visual Studio 2022 (it will be a similar process for VS 2019 too).

00:00 - Intro
0:33 - Close and reopen the Visual Studio IDE
0:52 - Create the Windows Forms application and add it to your project
2:26 - Add the project output. You can include the necessary files and dependencies of your application within the project
2:48 - Create the package as a single EXE file with all resources included
3:09 - Create a desktop shortcut for our application
3:37 - Build the installer project and generate the EXE file in Visual Studio

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[omarrahim]

Our dear professor, we thank you for this effort. Good luck and success. Please, I have a question. I have completed a project containing employee data and an image in the Access database with Visual Basic. When I package the project, I receive an error message: Access to the image path is denied.

[enXov]

Can this program also be used as an automatic update? Like ClickOnce Update

[kevinback]

Advanced Installer work only for small projects under 2GB, over this limit i run into problems. this software cost a lot of money, but there are so many simple function that i miss. i work on a UE game, i use this software to make my installer but now the test game has 10Gb and the software can not handle this size of downloads.i try diffrent solution that i got from the support, nothing works. the last try was to use now the lzma compresssion but there you can not make multiple volums, it make only 1 7zip file. nice now you have a big file that need to downloaded and extract later. this take so manny time. it is not usable. now i start to write my own installer in VS2022.

[DRAGORYA]

can you make a tutorial but with Java script, CSS and HTML instead please!

[oleggr]

When pressing "Add Project Output" only "Publish Profile" found and nothing more.

[ocramkd]

the antivirus keep finding an fileRepPup when I install the program on the pc by the extension on vs, what should i Do

[faizanaslam]

Hi, Is there any other I can't install extension through visual studio.

[KomputerDelisi]

Why do all anti-virus programs detect every .exe file made with this application as a virus?

[wgofficial]

Hello Advanced installer. When im building my setup in Advanced Installer app, the output keep saying "Detecting MSI incompatible resources". What does it mean, sir?



Prepare build
Detecting MSI incompatible resources
Preparing files
Creating LZMA archive
Creating MSI database
Writing Summary Information

[stevemichael]

Except you have to pay to be able to do this

[erikbrownpi]

Nice tutorial. But just one comment. Or question. Why do you talk so fast? If the purpose of the video is to teach then it would be very useful if you give the viewer the time to understand what you are saying and follow what you are doing. So talk a bit slower and move your mouse slower so that the viewer can clearly see what you are doing.

[sethngo]

Going way too fast, very hard to follow!!!!