How to publish an application in Visual Studio?

Question

I'm working on a small console application in Visual Studio C++ 2008 and would like to make an installer that I can distribute to a few friends to test the application. I recall a publish option being under the build menu, but it is not there now. Could I somehow have turned this feature off?

Is there a simple way to publish such that my application will be relatively independent of Windows Version?

Thanks,

Nerf42

Answer 1

You can only publish Web projects. If you want an installer package for a console application, you will need to create a setup project.

Answer 2

Deploying Your Program (C++)

Answer 3

build the exec program, make sure you include all the needed libraries. Then you can use installcreator and create simple setup program.

Answer 4

I found my error: Publish is available for Visual Studio C# projects, Visual Studio C++ projects have no such option.

Thanks to all who answered.

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