After you've completed your development efforts, you need a way to get the fruits of those efforts to users. Where you might once have been limited to creating a setup program or using software separate from the development environment, you can now create a variety of distribution units, and all within the Microsoft development environment.
The following sections provide information to acquaint you with packaging applications in the Microsoft development environment.
| Section | Description |
| Solution Building and Packaging Concepts | Introduces concepts key to packaging your applications with the Microsoft development environment (for Microsoft® Visual J++™ and Microsoft® Visual InterDev™). |
| Solution Building and Packaging Common Tasks | Provides links to step-by-step instructions for performing common building and packaging tasks. |
| Solution Building and Packaging User Interface Reference | Provides links to topics describing what you'll see in dialog boxes associated with building and packaging. |
| Solution Building and Packaging Error Messages | Provides links to topics describing error messages you may encounter when packaging your applications. |