Hi all,
I found out about SharpDevelop when I ask another forum about a better publisher than was available using vb express 2008. Now I have SharpDevelop and I can edit, debug and in general run my vb express program. But I can find no way to publish it to an excutable I can publish. Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks
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What do you understand by "Publish"?
Chris
Hi ChristophWille,
I have written a program I wish to distribute over the internet so I need the program to be converted into an excutable file that can be downloaded and will install the program on the user's computer when run. I am 72 and have been retired for 20 years. Is "publish" no longer used to describe the process of creating excutables from source code?
Droose
"Publish" in the context of VB Express refers to ClickOnce-Deployment. That's not supported in SharpDevelop.
To create an executable, just use Build>Build solution. The .exe will be created in the bin\Debug directory inside your project folder.
I don't think shipping a bare .exe program is a very profressional way to distribute a program to customers. Do You?
Click once is one way to distribute a program.
You have other tools for package and distribute your code, from WiX - included in #D, to third party installshields.
I've had a lot of good success with InnoSetup. It's far simpler and less frustrating than Wix - while the many problems I've had with Wix are likely due to my not doing something correctly, it seems to be far more complex and confusing than necessary. One day I'm sure I'll have to figure it out in more detail, but I've been too busy coding to take a 3-month seminar in Wix just to build a simple installer! :-)
i like innosetup, too. But wix seems interesting at least to know, for advanced targets.