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After Creating Setup Program in VS2010, the next step is to setup your file system for package and deployment. This is how setup program distribute your associated files and components on your client’s computer. One of the Important features of Setup program is, it has the ability to create a shortcut for your application link, to the client computer desktop. To do this Open the File system window, if it wasn’t open, right your setup project name select View->File System as shown below:
On File System window there are three default folders Application Folder, User’s Desktop and User’s Program Menu. On Application Folder this is the location where your Application will be installed and almost all your associated files and components like DLL’s,. Pictures, XML, Executable File, Help file and Configurations files located. The User’s Desktop will represent the Windows desktop where some of your shortcut link will be shown. User’s Program Menu this is the Start menu of the current user where almost all programs have shortcut link on it.
You can create Folder, Project Output, File and Assembly on your project by right clicking the each folder and select what are you going to add in a menu as shown above. To ad an special folders such as the ff:
  1. Common Files
  2. Common Files (64 bit)
  3. Fonts Folder
  4. Program Files Folder
  5. Program Files Folder (64 bit)
  6. System Folder
  7. System Folder (64 bit)
  8. User’s Application data Folder
  9. User’s Favorite Folder
  10. User’s Personal Data Folder
  11. User’s Send To menu
  12. User’s Start Menu
  13. User’s Startup Menu
  14. User’s Templates Folder
  15. Windows Folder
  16. Global Assembly Cache (GAC Folder)
Or you can have your own custom Folder you wish to include in setup program. The Global Assembly Cache Folder is a special Folder to store registered Assembly (DLL-Activex Dynamic Link Library).
As the Installer will launch all the things that was create in File system window of Setup Project will be created or updated on the target machine. If the folder does not exist it will be created, if the folder is already existed like the Common Files then, it will be updated.You might also interested with the topics:
  1. What to consider in creating modular programming.
  2. Creating Setup program in Visual Studio 2010.
  3. How to use classes with Visual basic.Net.
  4. Implementing Classes in Visual basic.Net

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