Deploying Smart Clients with ClickOnce
Apress eBooks · 2006
SummaryThe focus of this chapter was ClickOnce, which is a technology that ships with the .NET Framework 2.0 and is used to autodeploy and update Windows Forms and console applications. ClickOnce supports three sources for where a ClickOnce application can be deployed. They include aWeb server, a file server, and some form of removable media (such as a CD).ClickOnce is amajor improvement over the previous approaches to deploying rich client applications. ClickOnce has a rich and configurable deploy, update, and security policy. Moreover, you can use the ClickOnce APIs to customize your deployment solutions.This chapter was a tour of ClickOnce. In the next chapter, we will go into great detail about the concepts discussed here. Furthermore, we’ll identify what ClickOnce can’t do and how to work around that.