title: Deploying a .NET C# Console App
body: <p>All,</p>
  
  <p>I created a C# console app in VS2010 (.NET4). that hits a database and sends out emails. 
  It works fine when I run it from VS but deploying the app to a remote server has me befuddled. All I need to do is install this app on (1) remote windows server.</p>
  
  <p>Should be easy, right?</p>
  
  <p>Looking at the publish settings, I don't see anything that will just build it locally without creating an installer (From a CD-Rom or DVD-ROM) and the other 2 options really don't apply either, at least by their descriptions.</p>
  
  <p><strong>So here is what I did so far:</strong></p>
  
  <p>The VS2010 publishing options that I am given are as follows:</p>
  
  <p><strong>Step #1 Picked option 3</strong>
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/yqi5L.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p><strong>Step #2 Place generated files on remote server</strong>
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ap5yx.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p><strong>Step #3 Ran the setup installer</strong></p>
  
  <p><strong>Step #4 Get this error</strong></p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/oEtXU.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p><strong>Question</strong></p>
  
  <p>Am I approaching this correctly?
  If not, what do I need to do?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>