Setup and Deploy your .Net application

Today I will step by step guide you how you can create a “msi” (Microsoft Installer) or “exe” file for your application, so your users can only download your setup file and install your created application.

Open Visual studio and select new project from file menu.In installed templates on the left you will see “other Project types” under that ==> Setup and deployment and ==> Visual studio installer. After that in project types select Setup project and name your setup project as your application name and press ok.You will see a the new project created in like this:

Now on your left you will see three folders displaying, Application folder, User’s Desktop and User’s Program Menu.

• Application folder is the one installed on the drive of the user with the running “exe” of your application.
• User’s Desktop shows here that your application will have a shortcut on user’s desktop or not.
• And User’s program menu means that will there be a running “exe” shortcut showing up in the start menu or not.

Now setup or project. On application folder right click and Add==>File

Click on file and browse till your project’s folder ==> bin==>debug==> your “exe” file of the project. Remember it will be in (*.exe) format.

Also you have to add the required framework setup exe which is required to run your application. add similarly framework 4 setup if you have developed your application in .NET framework 4.0, add framework 3.5 setup if you have developed your application in .NET framework 3.5, and so on, in the application folder.

Select User’s Desktop folder and right click on the window showing on the right side of the project and ==> Create new Shortcut.

Click on Application Folder and press Ok. After pressing Ok you will see your added exe file , select it and again press ok. This will add the shortcut of your application in user’s Desktop folder. Similarly do it for User’s Program Menu.

One last thing is select your Application folder and in the property window set your Always Create Property to “True. Do this for User’s Desktop and User’s Program Menu also.

Now build your project by ctlrl+shift+b. You will find your msi file in the folder location of the this project where you created it or saved it.

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Hard Disk Partition in Windows 7

After you have installed Windows 7 you might want to partition your drives and create different spaces for different purposes. Here are some easy steps which can help you to perform partition of hard disk easily.
Step1 : right Click on your My Computer Icon and select Manage.
Step2: A window will open, on the left side under computer management there are some options, select Disk Management under the Storage header.
Step3 : your Disk details will be displayed with used memory and free memory.
Step4: In the bottom part you will see descriptive information of disks. Right click on the one you want to shrink or divide and select Shrink volume. It will query from the system and will take few minutes.
Step5: now a window with the total size of the drive in MegaBytes will be displayed along with default shrink memory in MBs is also filled in. Remember to fill out the memory you want to partition in MBS i.e 1024 for 1GB and so on.
Step6: After you provide the memory of new partition proceed to next step and keep providing the information about the new partition as per your requirements also you can provide the name of new partition.
Step7: you are now done with the new partition after ending the process and you can see it in your drives that one more partition is added.
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UML (Unified Modeling Language)

Unified Modeling Language was proposed by OMG (Object Management Group) and now it has become a OMG Standard. UML is the basic step a software programmer or designer must know and implement before any advance progress. Normally Software Engineers learn languages to begin software development career, but UML is the one which must be focus before learning any software development languages such as (C, java, C#, etc). UML is also a language but unlike Java and other Programming languages, UML is visual, pictorial representation of a software system. Something like a blue print of a software before its construction. It is a pictorial or abstract description of a software system. UML is not a programming language but it can be used to generate codes for different languages using its diagrams. It is also used in non software systems designing purposes such as manufacturing units.

UML detailed attributes and cycle will be discussed in the next post so stay tuned.

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