Conclusion

There are many setup tools available in the market place. The features offered by each of these tools, their ease of use, and the way they perform when you are deploying your solution should be the biggest determining factors when you decide which tools are best suited for your development.

This chapter listed the features available in today ‚ s setup tools, discussed the features available in specific setup tool products, discussed why the Setup Wizard is essentially dead, and shared a story of how one development shop settled on a couple of setup tools to satisfy different deployment scenarios. We strongly recommend you determine which tool or tools you need long before you need to create the first setup. Waiting until the night before the first deployment is a recipe for disaster.

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