What is the easiest way to deploy a WPF application?

Question

I have a WPF application developed using TFS 2010. I figured out how to achieve continuous integration in general. If successful, I want the assembly to be copied to a network location. It’s not clear to me whether I should use the drop location or publish options. I just want a simple deployment: a direct copy of the assembly.

Is there a direct way to do this in TFS 2010?

Answer 1

It looks like you want to use the option "Create an assembly of instances to display folders" on the "Build by default" tab in the assembly definition using the default template ready-made workflow. This will copy everything from your assembly output, including symbols for debugging, etc. I would recommend doing this if you want the easiest way to copy the application to a network resource, as you said above.