What is the difference between setup project and setup wizard?

Giu picture Giu · Jan 14, 2015 · Viewed 8k times · Source

For a winform application I have to create an installer project, here is what I have as choice:

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What is the difference between Setup Project and Setup Wizard ?

Answer

yu yang Jian picture yu yang Jian · Jun 28, 2018

The Setup Wizard will use about 5 steps to lead you create any kind of Setup Project/ Web Setup Project / Merge Module Project / CAB Project,

And the Setup Project creates a Setup Project.


I make the screenshot of steps of Setup Wizard to create Setup Project:

1.Welcome Page

2.Choose Create a setup for a Windosws application, the other 3 options can create Web Setup Project / Merge Module Project / CAB Project

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3.Choose project outputs to include, here will show other projects in the same solution for you to choose from

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4.If you have other files to include, you can add here

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5.Summary and check, click finish to create

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6.The final create screen is same as directly create a Setup Project.

In fact, every steps in the Setup Wizard all can be set somewhere in the directly created Setup Project.

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