Create an application setup in visual studio 2013

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I already have a project which is ready to build  Currently  I am using visual studio 2013   But  I don t know how to create an MSI setup in visual studio 2013  but for visual studio 2010 there are plenty of tutorials out there discussing how to create a setup in visual studio 2010     Does this mean I need to install visual studio 2010 in order to create an application setup for my project   What is the easiest way to create an application setup in visual studio 2013

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Microsoft has listened to the cry for supporting installers (MSI) in Visual Studio and release the Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension. You can now create installers in VS2013, download the extension here from the visualstudiogallery.

visual-studio-installer-projects-extension

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Visual Studio 2013 now supports setup projects  Microsoft have shipped a Visual Studio extension to produce setup projects    Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension

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I will tell   how i solved almost similar problem  I developed a application using VS 2013 and tried to create wizard for it failed to do  Later i installed premium VS and tried and failed    at last i used  ClickOnce  and it worked fine    So i believe here also    CLICKONCE  would help you

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As of Visual Studio 2012  Microsoft no longer provides the built-in deployment package  If you wish to use this package  you will need to use VS2010   In 2013 you have several options    InstallShield WiX Roll your own   In my projects I create my own installers from scratch  which  since I do not use Windows Installer  have the advantage of being super fast  even on old machines

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Apart from Install Shield and WiX  there is Inno Setup  Although I haven t tried it myself I have heard good things about it

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Microsoft also release the Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Installer Projects Extension This is the same extension as the 2013 version but for Visual Studio 2015

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Microsoft recommends to use the  InstallShield Limited Edition for Visual Studio   as replacement for the discontinued  Deployment and Setup Project  - but it is not so nice and nobody else recommends to use it  But for simple setups  and if it is not a problem to relay on commercial third party products  you can use it   The alternative is to use Windows Installer XML  WiX   but you have to do many things manually that did the Setup-Project by itself

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