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Does anyone have a full example of providing a clickonce install that provide the user with a Setup.exe.
This should be simple!
Clickonce is not a solution the user does not want to see loads of files in a folder; he/she wants a simple setup.exe.
The msi setup wizard seems not to be hooked up to the clickonce system.
There is some info about a bootstrap thing but again that is an addon 🙁
If your user wants a web delivery of a setup.exe, then create a setup project in Visual Studio (see this KB article for instructions) and then post the setup.exe on a web site for the user to download.
This will not have the ability to update the application, which is one of the primary differences from clickonce.
If you want this functionality, then you will either have to create it yourself (we did and it took approximately 3 weeks) or purchase a third party installer package such as Installshield.
If you can afford it, I strongly recommend this approach since they have streaming setups, web sites for hosting the installs, and support.