Quote Originally Posted by Joacim Andersson View Post
The secret art of creating an installer
That's not quite accurate. Deployment is the act of releasing your application to your users and all that that involves. Creating the installer is only part of that, and not even a mandatory part. If you create a simple application that consists of just an EXE then deployment might consist of simply copying that EXE to another machine, which is known as "XCOPY deployment".

That said, this is the second time in two days I've seen someone ask to have the term deployment explained. I'd suggest that people look first and ask questions later. A quick search on Dictionary.com and Google would provide all the information you need.