When I deploy my Photo Collection Set, the ZIP file (or self-installing program file) is huge! Why must it be so big?
If you included the PhotoViewer software in the deployment, it will make the resulting ZIP file (or self-installing program) quite a bit larger. This is because PhotoViewer is a fairly large program. The programming environment of Microsoft Windows makes it hard to produce software programs that are both compact and full-featured at the same time. Robust programs require a lot of internal framework. Some programs are made smaller by requiring them to also include extra library files (known as DLLs), so there is no savings in program size anyway. Excluding the PhotoViewer program when you deploy will make the final product smaller, but those who receive your ZIP file (or self-installing program) will need to have PhotoViewer already installed or else they cannot view your Photo Collection Set.
