Publishing without clickonce

personally i hate clickonce, i like to have an own installer and updater but that manifest file, how do i use that (or the content) when i don't publish it with clickonce b开发者_运维百科ecause when i just copy the .exe it runs fine and such, but i dont have a manifest file now, i need to create a program that needs admin rights, how do i do that (include manifest or programatically) without clickonce, cuuuuz i am stuck on this

Use Wix, or one of the built-in installer project types.