创建带有XNA二进制文件和可再发行文件的安装exe文件-VS2012

Question

I'm actually working on a game during my internship. I made it with XNA game studio and used Visual studio 2012 (used a topic on this site to install it...). Now that i'm almost done with the code, I'm looking into make an exe file which will install the game. As it may be installed on computers where XNA and .NET redistributables aren't installed, the package should install them with the game, or it'll not work.

So I'm looking for two things :

• How to generate binary files for my XNA project, as I don't want all the users to read my work. I know how to do it on VS2010, but on VS2012 I just can't find where's the option to generate them.

• Once I got the binaries, I want to know how to make an exe file which will install them and the redistributables. I know there's some tools to do it, but I don't know what to use.

Thanks in advance for helping me !

Answer 1

They have removed the installer project type from VS2012, checkout WIX. Its a bit clumsy to get started, but once you get a hang of it, its much more powerfull than VS2010 installer project

http://wixtoolset.org/