title: how to turn visual studio windows forms project into an application?
body: <p>I programmed an hour-sheet application and now I would like to publish it so people can install and run it.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried the publish function of visual studio 2008 but this gives me a clickOnce application/installer that's really confusing, but it works when I run it, but when I export the installer to another pc it installs it crashes at the end of the install. </p>
  
  <p>so I tried just coping the installed files but then the program crashes at startup.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a simple way to compile the application to a simple standalone executable or maybe containing a separate folder containing the resources (images/classes)?</p>