ClickOnce: Bringing Ease and Reliability to Smart Client Deployment
Who said client deployment has to be difficult? The ClickOnce technologies baked into Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 make distributing your application either online or offline much easier.
by Patrick Darragh
March 24, 2006
any developers would love to leverage the rich UI, high performance, and offline capability offered by smart client applications; however, they've been turned off by the high TCO caused by client deployment headaches. The advent of ClickOnce client deployment technology in the .NET Framework 2.0 heralds a new era where client deployment takes on the ease and reliability of Web deployment.
This article is an overview of ClickOnce deployment designed to get readers acquainted with the new technology. I will take a peek under the hood to see what makes ClickOnce run, then bubble back up to talk about how to deploy applications and updates via ClickOnce, using tools such as Visual Studio 2005 and Mage.
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any developers would love to leverage the rich UI, high performance, and offline capability offered by smart client applications; however, they've been turned off by the high TCO caused by client deployment headaches. The advent of ClickOnce client deployment technology in the .NET Framework 2.0 heralds a new era where client deployment takes on the ease and reliability of Web deployment.
