Create MSI Installer in Visual Studio 2022 | C# Project Setup Guide

Want to share your C# application with others as a professional Windows installer? In this tutorial, I’ll show you step by step how to create an MSI installer from your C# project in Visual Studio 2022. 🚀

Whether you’ve built a Windows Forms app or a WPF app, packaging it as an MSI makes it easy for users to install, uninstall, and run your software just like any other program on Windows.

This beginner-friendly guide covers everything you need to know, from setting up the right Visual Studio extension to building and testing your MSI file.

✨ What you’ll learn in this video:

How to install the Visual Studio Installer Projects extension

Creating a Setup Project (.vdproj) in Visual Studio 2022

Adding your app’s output files to the installer project

Building the MSI file and locating it on your system

Installing and testing your C# app using the MSI installer


By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have a fully working MSI installer that you can share with others or even deploy across multiple machines. This is perfect for developers who want to distribute apps outside the Microsoft Store, deliver software in corporate environments, or simply share projects with friends and clients.

📌 Requirements before starting:

Visual Studio 2022 installed

A C# project (Windows Forms or WPF)

Installed “Mobile development with .NET” workload (for project support)

Visual Studio Installer Projects extension


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