Hi there I am a bit new to VB.NET and I am planning to develop a 2d game engine.

The game engine will let you edit your own game levels (with collisions and monsters etc), using your own resources from a "Resources" folder (contains graphics and audio).

And when you finish your game, my game engine will let you compile your whole game (including the resources) into one single .exe file and will let you share the .exe file with everyone (they simply have to run the .exe and can already play the game).

I already finished my engine (in the sense of building game levels). But I have no idea how to do the compiling part.

How can I do that? How can I make a button that, when pressed, will compile a whole project into one .exe file?

What are your ideas?