Publish Windows App to be Emailed

问题:

I have a finished version of an app (made using WPF). I want to publish it so that the installation files can be emailed to another person. The only options shown with the Visual Studio 2013 Publish Wizard are "From a Web site", "From a UNC path or file share", or "From a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM".

How can I publish the app so that it goes into a nice and tidy folder on my Desktop which I can simply zip up and email it to someone? To which they can simply unzip, click setup, and follow the traditional setup wizard. It needs to be able to run on Windows XP thru Windows 8.

(I have .csv files and image files that the application uses, if it is relevant.)

回答1:

In Visual Studio, highlight the project you want to deploy and right click. This will raise a context menu which has a 'Publish' item on it...

Selecting this will raise a Wizard like this...

From here, select 'Finish'. This will create a directory with a Setup.exe and all the necessary files to install the application on a different machine (given security levels permit, third party software restrictions, and a host of other deployment issues). You can then create a zip file (keeping the directory structure) and email it.

The 'Publish' feature has other options on it you will want to explore, like Click Once.

回答2:

That is pretty straight forward if you are going to perform zip and email to your subscribers

• begin with publishing the app from Build -> Publish

• Choose a path from your local hard drive eg. C:\Myapp

• then in next screen choose From a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM

• then in next screen choose The application will not check updates unless you have a web location where you can publish the updates (which I guess you dont want for now)

• then Finish

and your chosen folder C:\Myapp will contain the setup files which you can zip and email to your users.