Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce

A Developers Guide to Deploying Windows Forms Applications

by Brian Noyes

Deployment has been a thorn in the side of developers for a long time. ClickOnce eases deployment of Smart Client applications, and thus has been one of the most eagerly awaited new features of Windows Forms 2.0. While an experienced .NET developer can learn the basics of ClickOnce in about fifteen minutes, problems arise when you start trying to apply ClickOnce in real-world applications, which invariably are more complicated than the classroom. This is the first complete guide to real-world use of ClickOnce, and gives a perfect balance of theory and practice – explaining how and why ClickOnce works the way it does, so that readers can then know how to apply and use ClickOnce in their own particular applications.

This book covers the following topics:

Smart Client Deployment and Architecture Overview
Initial Deployment with ClickOnce
Automatic Updates with ClickOnce
On-Demand Updates with the ClickOnce API
Managing Application Files
ClickOnce Security
Deploying Prerequisites with the Bootstrapper
Advanced ClickOnce Topics

You can download the sample code here: Sample Code (10MB)

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Friday, May 16, 2008

Welcome to Southern California .NET Architecture Users Group

The next SoCal IASA chapter meeting on will be Thursday May 15, 2007at Rancho Santiago Community College District, 2323 N. Broadway, Santa Ana. Meeting starts at 7:00 pm, pizza and networking 6:30 pm. Meeting cost is $5 to help us cover the cost of food and beverages. RSVP by emailing to mike.vincent@iasahome.org if you plan to attend.

Our May meeting is an INETA sponsored event

Designing for Operations

Keith Pleas will be talking about management modeling, health modeling, the DSL language that was used in the just released Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool. The Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool is a productivity tool that helps architects and system designers to generate models of an application that contribute to minimized TCO. These models include configuration, instrumentation, health, and performance information. The Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool also assists developers to implement the required instrumentation, and create management packs for monitoring systems such as Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007.

Keith Pleas

Keith Pleas is one of the founders of Guided Design and has worked for more than two years on the team developing the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET, and has worked with the patterns & practices team for 3 years. Keith is an internationally known writer and speaker and served as the Editorial Chair for VSLive. He is also a Contributing Editor to "Visual Studio Magazine", has developed Microsoft Professional Certification Exams. Keith was a founding board member of INETA where he also created the INETA Speakers Bureau.

Who are we

Southern California .NET Architecture Users Group

Southern California .NET Architecture user group was founded to create a community for assisting software developers and software architects to increase their understanding of software architecture.

SoCal .NET Architecture users group is a not for profit social group whose purpose is to provide a forum for software architects and software developers to expand their knowledge of software architecture and Microsoft .NET technologies.

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