setup-deployment

How do I create a shortcut with the name set to [PRODUCTNAME] in a VS Setup and Deployment project?

In my VS Setup & Deployment project, I want to create a desktop shortcut whose name is set to the [ProductName] property. Instead of using the property, the setup program simply treats [ProductName] as a string literal. How can I get it to behave the way I want? ...

How to test software installations on clean Operating Systems?

I want to test the installation/deployment of my software on a variety of Operating Systems. Is my only choice to do the following? Purchase VMWare Workstation Purchase the discs for each of the operating systems I want to test against ...

How to Deploy a C#.net project in Visual studio 2010 (ultimate) ?

solution is developed for x86 platform and framework 3.5... i need to include pre-request setups in my offline project ...dot net frame work 3.5 , sql server compact server sp 2,windows installer 3.1 are the pre-request that the setup should check for and install if not installed in target machine...how to create setup with pre-request...