The Releases view provides a visual tool for managing separate releases for each project in your solution.

Before building your package, make sure that you have completed designing and setting the properties for every element in your setup project, including the features, components, files, shortcuts, registry entries, and setup user interface.

## Building a Release

To build a release in Visual Studio .NET:

1. Ensure that the project configuration is the default configuration.
2. Use the Configuration Manager to map the correct project configurations to the solution configurations.
3. Select the appropriate option from the Build menu:

   Option | Description
   --- | ---
   Build Solution | Builds the entire solution, according to what is mapped in the Configuration Manager for each project included in the solution.
   Build Setup Name | Build only the setup project, according to the release specified in the Project Configuration column of the Configuration Manager.

As the project builds, the Build output information is displayed in the Output window.