Question I just don't get this setup & deployment stuff!!!

[bdinnocenzo]

I'm missing something. Every time I try to package up a project -- VB Windows application (I'm using VS 2008 Professional Edition) -- and take that to a "virgin" machine I'm missing various files. How am I suppose to make sure all the dependencies are included? I thought that was suppose to be done "automagically".

Is there a good tutorial or book on this subject? I have a few books on this but they all make it sound so point and click simple...but that's not working for me.

Any direction would be greatly appreciated!

-Bill

 

[newguy]

Are you talking about the framework dependencies, like 3.5? You can set this up in the Publish tab under prerequisites. If SQL they have to have the database engine also in the Publish tab.

 

[bdinnocenzo]

No, it's all the other stuff that shows up in the reference list. Do I need to specifically list each of those or do they get "picked up" automatically?