How to deploye a windows application with sql server database

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i have developed a small windows application in Visual studio 2010 with c# which use a sql server database. now i want to deploy and make an exe for this application for those machines which has not any .net framework and sql server installed....
i have visited many msdn forums and blogs for but no help was provided..
can anybody help me out step by step for this perpose.
and please do not provide any link or refrences..

Posted 24-Aug-11 1:09am

choudhary.sumit

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Prerak Patel 24-Aug-11 7:20am

Ala'aldin Alzu'bi: do you use SQL Enterprise version or SQL Express version? and how many machines do you want to deploy your application on?

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-24T01:21:00

Deploy of the exe and .NET is not difficult: just create a Set and Deployment project and follow the instructions - it will install the relevant .NET framework as necessary.

Sql Server is more complex:
You should not include SQL Server in your installation. There are a couple of reasons:
0) You can only distribute SQL Server Express for copyright reasons - not SQL Server full version.
1) They may already have SQL Server installed on the network. If so, then they will presumably want to use that version.
2) If they do have SQL server installed and you start proliferating SQL server Express instances, you are going to annoy the heck out of the database administrator...
3) A single site installation of SQl Server is a lot more likely to be backed up than a number of scattered version under user control.
4) Sql server is quite complex for a "normal" user to install and administer - it is not a good idea!
5) It will destroy the primary advantage of using Sql Server over SqlCE or SQLite - multiuser access. If everyone installs their own copy of SQL server, then you will have multiple copies of your database, each used by a single person. This will cause some confusion, and (depending on how you wrote the original database) may take some considerable effort to combine into a single instance when the problem is realized.

Instead, provide a link to SQLserver Express on the MS site, and let the customer do it, but make that clear before sale.