scott wrote:

>> Heh, there are IDEs that can do *that*?
> 
> I don't know anything about the detail of installers or how they work, I 
> just click "Publish" in Visual Studio and tell it where to put the 
> installer.  You can also tick boxes for which prerequisites your 
> installer also checks for and installs (eg the .net framework, a certain 
> version of Windows Installer, XNA framework, various SQL servers, etc) - 
> this seems to be intelligently correct by default though...

OK, that's kinda cool. What does it make? An executable package? Or an 
MSI file?

I wonder if I can convince VS to build an installer for something that 
wasn't compiled using VS... (Or, for that matter, whether the free 
edition even has this functionallity in the first place!)

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