How to deploy a console application

Question

I have a console application, that when I run (from within vs.net) it takes a while as it is a long running process.

I want to continue coding in vs.net, and maybe even spawn multiple instances of the console application.

How to best deploy this on my desktop cmputer?

Is this a good approach:

create a folder: /myConsole/ then subfolders for each instance.

Do I just grab all fines in the /debug folder or are there other dependancies?

Answer 1

If you run without attaching the debugger you can continue coding while the program runs.

Debug Menu | Start without debugging, or Ctrl+F5

Note: using this method, you can compile the modified code, but cannot run it since the .exe output file will be in use. I'm not sure if that's a problem for you.

Answer 2

One way I've done it before is to create a release build from VS. Then open as many command prompts as you need on the release folder and then run it from there. Then I change back to debug build and continue coding. This lets me run the separate instances and also debug if need be and it's all as simple as changing the type of build in VS.