California State University San Bernardino
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Independent Study Presentation

Date November 4, 2008

Time 5:00 pm 5:30 pm

Place JBH 359

Title Compiling an MSI file for the MRPG Client 

Presenter Giang Trang


Abstract

In this talk, I will present a technique I had learned about preparing and
generating a single executable file that allows user to install a client 
portion of the multi-player role playing game (MRPG). The MRPG projects was
written in C# and run on the Common Language Runtime (CLR). The process 
involves using a built-in wizard of Visual Studio 2005 to generate such 
file. The main advantage of using visual Studio 2005 is its ability of 
automatically downloading the .NET framework that provides the CLR if not 
present on the client machine. I will also briefly introduce the 
architecture of the MRPG client and walk through the process of creating 
the setup file out of the complied executable,   third party libraries, 
configuration files and data files. The presentation will end with a 
demonstration of the installation process.