A Web page is a good way to easily distribute your setup distribution unit to a large group of people. Rather than giving them floppy disks or telling them to run the setup from a network address, you can simply point them to a Web page that tells them what the application does and provides a link that will install it on their machine.
The following is a typical piece of HTML that creates a link to a setup program.
<a href="BankAccount Setup.exe">Click here to install the Bank Account Access Application.</a>In most browsers, clicking on this link will display a dialog box asking if the file should be downloaded to the user's machine or run from its current location. To avoid confusion, you should usually include instructions on your Web page to tell your users to select the "Run from current location" option.
Unless you digitally sign your setup distribution unit, most modern browsers will warn the user that the program they are about to run is not from a trusted source. Signing your application is a simple operation. Signing helps your users be sure that the application they are installing is from you and hasn't been tampered with. The Microsoft development environment provides the ability for you to sign your setup file.
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