How to distribute application

Question

I've never actually wanted to share anything I've made before, but I have a program that I want to be able to pass around to a few people.

How exactly does this work? Is it possible to create just an exe file?

I am using 2 third party libraries with my project. How will this affect things?

Answer 1

It's possible to give content of Release directory, but you must remember to set reference attribute Copy Local to true for external libraries. If you forget give client all libraries you will get runtime error. Better option is use e.g. ClickOnce. In the future when you update your app it will be the best option.

Here is quick tutorial from lynda.com.