publishing a 2005 application

im trying to publish an application i have finished in visual studio 2005 but when i try to install it on another pc it trys to download the .net framework. i understand that it requires it but is there no way of adding it to the setup ?

thanks.

I think that you will need to put that redristributable as a dependant file in the setup. At that point, you will need to go through the code for the setup where it downloads, and instead of it downloading to install, you have it shell the redistributable. I will be doing this for the first time soon as well, but I know that in order to do it, you will need to edit the setup project.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...distdeploy.asp

thank you for the link but i have to be honest and say that it all went straight over my head :confused:
i think i already have the file required in

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages\dotnetfx

called dotnetfx IExpress Setup.

does anybody know of a link to a kind of installing for dumbys site.

thanks.