setup.exe

I managed to actually make one today. It is way weirder that one might expect. The UI in VS 2005 looks like nobody cared at all about the feature. Its strange how much setup technology sucks. Some of it surely is based on having to deal with the st00pid decisions of yester year. I'm sure like happens all too often at The Soft that some moron justified some horribly retarded feature by using some misguided argument about performance or schedule. Let's say this particular retarded feature was creating a global registry of COM objects in the registry. Only later did people start figuring out how many frickin' planets you have to get to align to make get all that stupid COM shit to work. What the Goddamn fuck?! That polemic aside, setup really isn't nearly as slick as you want it to be given that everyone has to do it. Actually, ClickOnce seems to have turned out pretty well. I'd like to take some credit for it, but I jumped ship on Whidbey 2 years before it shipped. But ClickOnce is a unfortunately a dead end if you want to do anything interested during setup. That's bad.