Making a Stand-Alone EXE File - vb.net

I'm currently using Visual Studio 2010 to make a Visual Basic project. I'm trying to make a standard .EXE file for distribution but everytime I go to publish, I keep seeing it make a Click Once application.
Is there a way to complete and build a project in VStudio 2010 without making it as a Click-Once application?

Don't Publish it; that is what is making it a clickonce application. Just Build Solution; this will create the exe in the specified output directory (usually debug or release depending on your current Configuration.

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I want to write a cross-platform console application in VB.NET using Visual Studio Community Mac 2019 [VSCM2019]. It has to be able to be run on all platforms that dotnet 5.x currently supports.
When I create a new VB.NET console application in VSCM2019 it defaults to NET Frameworks 4.8 or lower. When I try to change that to net5.x in the project properties, net5.x is not offered in the dropdown list despite the fact that I have installed the latest dotnet 5 sdk.
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Several projects at work use UserControls.
I am the only one currently using SVN, with the repositories being file-based on my desktop.
I have been adding bin to the svn:ignore, as each run would change the files.
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How can you publish a WinForm that uses a .dll extension into one .exe file? I'm using VB.NET on Visual Studio 2013.
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My problem is packaging the entire program into one file. I don't want to have to use ClickOnce applications because you can't use a custom logo and so it kinda looks bad. I'll use it if there's no alternative.
I realised that the answer was to use the setup.exe file when publishing. Also, changing the logo of a ClickOnce program is possible.

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I am a little new to VB.NET but I have downloaded and installed VS Express 2012 for web. I created a web application that is fairly simple. One page. mypage.aspx It runs perfect in studio and responses how I would expect.
What I want to do is make it run from the dll. Not from the mypage.aspx.vb. I see the dll for the project in the bin folder.
But when I move mypage.aspx and web.config, and bin with dll to the server it simply says its missing the code behind page. Do I just need to change the reference to the VB file?
If you want to use dll, Go to Build menu in your Visual Studio and click on Publish Web Site
Set Target Location, there your whole project will be get created with dll and without code behind files.
Use this project to deploy on your server.

Automate publish of ClickOnce using Visual Studio 2008

I have a Visual Studio solution file (.sln), with several projects (VB.NET and C#, .vbproj, and .csproj files, respectively), and I have a Windows application, and I use ClickOnce to publish it.
Now, I need automate the Publish option using MSBuild or another good solution (cmd, VBScript, or BAT scripts).
How can I do it?
Well, ClickOnce uses MSBuild to publish itself. Therefore I would recomment to use MSBuild for your build-automation. See the reference on MSDN.
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Another tricky-part is when you want to run the build script on your build-server without Visual Studio installed. There you might have to copy some to make it work.