Creating a Setup Project for Windows Applications
In this section, you create a Setup Project for Windows Applications from the deployment projects that are available in Visual Studio. You need to have a completed Windows application that uses Active Reports.
To create a Setup project for Windows applications
1.In Visual Studio, open your Windows application.
2.On the File menu, point to Add and then click New Project.
3.In the Project Types panel of the Add New Project dialog box, select Other Project Types and click Setup and Deployment Projects.
4.In the Templates panel, select Setup Project.
5.Choose an appropriate name for the project and specify its location, and then click OK.
For the purposes of this tutorial, the setup project is referred to by the default name "Setup1".
Adding Components to the Setup Project
Add the merge modules and output files used by the Windows application to the setup project. However, if you plan to use the .msi Windows Installer file to deploy the Windows application, you do not need to add merge modules to the setup project. 
To add the Windows application's project output
1.In Solution Explorer, right-click Setup1, point to Add, and then click Project Output....
2.In the Add Project Output Group dialog box, select Primary output.
Leave the Configuration as (Active).
To add merge modules to the Windows Setup Project
1.In Solution Explorer, right-click Setup1, point to Add, and then click Merge Module....
2.In the Add Modules dialog box, select the merge modules that are required for your Windows application.
3.In the Solution Explorer, ensure that your selected merge modules were added under Setup1.