Creating setup project with single output file (Visual Studio 2005)

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I'm using visual studio 2005 Setup project to create an installer for my application. The outputs of the setup projects are: - Setup.exe (a bootstrapper which makes installed .Net framework if it doesn't exist) - .Net framework folder (for installation by the .exe above) - .msi installation for my project (called by the setup.exe)

My question is:

Is there any way I can have a single .exe (or msi) installation which makes the entire installation (and encapsulates all the functionallity menationed above) ?

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3 Answers

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It seams that the Visual Studio installer doen't let you create a single installation file.

I finally decided to use Win-Zip self extractor to create a single installation file which extract all of the above files and run the setup.exe

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I'm currently using visual studio standard setup and then combining the exe and msi with Make SFX since it supports command line (for automatic builds) and is free.

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SFX Compiler is a free program that will create self extracting .exe files for you.