I want to publish a C# application and I don't want to use oneclick or whatever its called I want to make a single exe so I'm trying to follow this tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No1paeGvBtw
I'm using Express, the free version of visual studio and my question is can you do this with express because it seems like I cant just open "Visual Studio" I can only open "Visual C#" etc. so at about 2:13 in the video I try to add a new project but the only installed templates are Visual C# and XNA as you can see below
My questions overall are can I accomplish this with Visual Studio 2010 Express and can I open Visual Studio, not specifically a certain language but generic, like it seems in the video.
Thanks
Edit: I'm in 8th grade so the academic version looks good.
You cannot create this type of project in Visual Studio Express. Limited functionality is part of what makes it a free product. If you need to create a deployment project, you will need to download a trial of visual studio professional and then you will have this option.
You can see this here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2kt85ked.aspx (In the Note section)
UPDATE
You can download a free 90 day trial here: (Which you can later extend by 30 days I believe)
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/try
Or if you are set up as a small business you can get it for very cheap from BizSpark (don't remember how much now) from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/Default.aspx
Or you can purchase the Academic Edition:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116948
The rest of the legal options that I am aware of involve paying retail
P.S. The trial version is fully functional that you can use for 4 months.