使用框架发布.NET应用程序

Question

I made a simple application including VLCPlugin in .NET 2012 including framework 4.

I need to install the application in non-frame work installed machines also. Now when I build the application and try to install on a machine the following error showing.

My question is how to export the entire application including frameworks ? So that clients can install and works the application.

Anyone please help Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You must use and installer of some kind. For Visual Studio 2012, you can publish the application using ClickOnce and mark .NET 4.0 as a prerequisite. For earlier versions of Visual Studio, you can use a Setup project to create an MSI based install; the setup project, like the ClickOnce wizard, should automatically detect the dependency on the .NET 4.0 runtime. You can also use InstallShield or another commercially available installer creation package. The only other alternative is to tell your users to download either the standalone or web versions of the .NET installation package from Microsoft.

Answer 2

For distributing a commercial software, we use WIX - http://wix.sourceforge.net/ . This is free, you can fully customize the installation process and of course detect and install the .Net framework. It has a plugin for Visual Studio and works with VS2012 well.