Prompt for Service Account During Windows Service Installation by Steve Hall on May 13, 2009
This article shows how to customize the installation of a windows service in Visual Studio 2005 to prompt for a service account username and password. This process involves passing values from the install screen to a customized installer.

Continuous Integration with CruiseControl.net by Dorothy Molloy on Mar 10, 2009
Discusses the advantages of continuous integration going into some detail on automating unit tests and documentation. Includes example build files and configuration

Enhanced MSI Analyzer in .NET using C# and Windows Forms by Sateesh Kumar on Sep 24, 2008
This application allows us to view and update the contents of an MSI file.

Introduction to Building a Plug-In Architecture Using C# by Matthew Cochran on Sep 09, 2007
In this article we'll take another look at how we can use the state pattern to build a plug-in architecture that will allow us to change the behavior of our application by placing differnt plug-ins into a folder.

Building a Setup for a Windows Forms Application by Rahul Kumar Saxena on Aug 25, 2007
This step by step article shows how to build a setup executable for a Windows Forms application using Visual Studio .NET.

C# Friendly Assemblies: Looking at building Truly Reusable Components by Matthew Cochran on Apr 12, 2007
This article discusses how we can hide our base class implementation and require referencing of our objects through their interfaces. This keeps our own projects loosely coupled and also allows us to publish our assemblies as truly reusable components because they are 100% “Black box”.

Step by Step Guide to Create a Setup for a Web Application by shrijeet ' on Jan 31, 2007
Deployment of an application is big issue in application software development.

Deploying Programs in C# by Mike Gold on Jan 31, 2007
Deploying projects in Visual Studio.NET is fairly straightforward. Most of the process is automated for you through some convenient wizards so it doesn't require much effort. Keep in mind, though that you probably need the Windows Component Update Beta 1 on the machine you are deploying to. I suspect you also need the Microsoft .NET Framework, as well (for now).

Poorman's Installation program in C# and .NET by Mike Gold on Jan 31, 2007
Installation programs can be quite expensive these days. Although programs such as Wise and InstallShield have fantastic features and are fairly comprehensive, sometimes you just want to do the easy installation of copying and pasting files into a directory and perhaps placing a shortcut in the start menu.

Considerations in Porting and Deploying a WinForms GDI+ Game to the Pocket PC by Mike Gold on Jan 30, 2007
This article describes some of the issues I came across when porting a Windows Form Game to the Pocket PC. It also describes how to deploy a Windows Mobile Application from Visual Studio 5.

Create your own Custom File Type by Scott Lysle on Dec 08, 2006
This article describes a simple approach to creating a custom file type.

Using Custom Tasks in MSBuild to modify XML Configuration Files on the Fly by Mike Gold on Aug 24, 2006
This article shows you how to use MSBuild to build your project and how to create a custom task that will allow you to modify sections of your XML configuration files.

Automated Backup with NAnt by Liam McLennan on Aug 22, 2006
An article describing how to use the NAnt build tool to create a custom, automatted backup process.

ClickOnce Deployment by Amol Malpani on May 09, 2006
This article will make you publish application on IIS withouting using VS IDE.

Deploying ASP.NET 2 Web Site to Production Server: Part II by Moustafa Arafa on Apr 10, 2006
On the first part we discussed in detail how to move our database which contains the membership tables from the default aspnetdb Database to our database. On this part we will show how to change the default settings of asp.net membership and role providers to read from tables which stored on our database.

Deploying ASP.Net 2.0 Web site to Production Server: Part I by Moustafa Arafa on Apr 10, 2006
Deploying ASP.NET 2.0 web site is the first issue facing the developer. This part of the article gives you a step by step to how to move membership tables from MS SQL express Edition to your database that you are used on your web site. The second part we will go in details to configure our asp.net web site.

Application Development using ClickOnce in Visual Studio 2005. by Arun Kumar on Jan 19, 2006
This article is an introduction for deploying application using ClickOnce in Visual Studio 2005.

Configuring Applications in .NET by Dipal Choksi on Dec 24, 2005
The .Net Framework provides a very convenient and flexible way to configure applications at run time.

Customize User Interfaces and Pass User Input to Installer Classes by Doug Doedens on Dec 24, 2005
In this article I am going to demonstrate how to customize your MSI install to prompt the user for some information and then pass this information to an installer class. This can be useful when needing to do something during an install based on the user input.

Deployment: Customizing your .NET deployment Projects by Mike Gold on Dec 24, 2005
The fact of the matter is that Visual Studio.NET already contains everything you need to create a rich setup experience for your users. In this article we are going to show you two ways to add a readme dialog to your application, the easy way and the hard way. The easy way requires absolutely no coding. The hard way requires coding and actually allows you to add complex custom features to your application.

How to work with Assemblies in InstallShield Developer 7.0 by Santhosh Kumar R V on Dec 24, 2005
InstallShield Developer 7.0 is the best solution for providing the very easy user interface to author installations having both .NET and side by side components. This article is a step by step walk through of how to create a deployment project using InstallShield.

Creating Setup and Deployment Projects in VS.NET by Vishnu Prasad on Dec 08, 2005
This step-by-step tutorial guides you how to create a setup and deployment project using Visual Studio .NET to build a setup of your applications.

Add a short cut desktop icon to your new installed program by Bechir Bejaoui on Feb 16, 2009
In this video I will demostrate how to add a short cut desktop icon to your new installed program.