creating exe

Amar insane

Hi, can someone pleez teel me how to create an exe file out of your c# code in Micro soft visual studio 2010.

Dr Walt Fair PE

Have you tried to build your application?

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Amar insane

yes i have. i wanted to know. how do we get a single icon which we can click and get you application running. without opening the visual studio.

Dr Walt Fair PE

Well, I'm still using VS 2008, but if the layout is the same, there should be an exe file created in a subdirectory of your project\bin directory. However, if you want to distribute your app and it needs any other libraries, etc., you should create a Setup Project or Publish it from the Build menu, assuming the menu layout of VS 2020 is similar to 2008. I create a Setup project for all of my applications and when I get things working the way I want, I just build the setup project and create an installable msi file.

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Pravin Patil Mumbai

Build a solution, you will find the exe file in the output folder. If you want to build the exe file from command line then there is a command line utility csc.exe to make an exe file from cs file. Refer http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/78f4aasd.aspx[^] for the same. Hope this helps. All the best.

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Abhinav S

You need to invoke the compiler csc.exe. You can do this via Visual Studio directly by using the Build menu option or via the command line[^].

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amol pushp sharma

i m understand yr ans; pls define specifically :doh:

Dave Kreskowiak

You REALLY need to pickup a beginners book on whatever language you're using and work through it. You make an .EXE file every time you run your app from inside Visual Studio. He was telling you where to find it, but apparently you have no idea where your project files are saved. Look in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects.

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Edward Giles

Here is the exact path where (project name) is the project name : %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\(project name)\bin\debug\