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Curtis Schlak.6-Mar-09 1:48
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You have confused me with your questions. Let's think about the two scenarios that you've presented so far:
(Your First Post) Using the ClickOnce feature in Visual Studio
ClickOnce is part of the Windows Installer system and you only need to publish the ClickOnce files to a public Web server or share. Windows installer does the rest. Windows Installer will download and install all of the necessary files. The user only needs to click on a link.
(This Most Recent Post) Traditional Installation
The user downloads a setup package that you built using an Installer project or WiX project or InstallShield project or XXX project. That installation executable then unpacks and installs the software on the machine.
These two choices are essentially mutually exclusive, though some scenarios will have you use a local installer to bootstrap a ClickOnce installation. You really need to understand the difference between these distribution options before you can ask questions about them.

My question to you is which one do you want to do: use ClickOnce and let Windows Installer handle everything for your users by using the Publish feature in Visual Studio, or build a traditional installation package that a user can download?
In either case, here are resources for your education:

Again, I point you to ClickOnce Deployment[^].

And, here's an article right here on CodeProject for Visual Studio Windows Application Setup Project[^] by the somewhat prolific kubben[^].

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