December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
9h 6m
English
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Summary
You have covered a lot of territory in this chapter. You learned all about deployment and configuration, and took a crash course on security topics as well.
Deployment is as easy as using XCOPY or FTP to transfer files from your development computer to the target computer. There are, however, additional tools that help you deploy easier and faster, such as the Windows Installer and CAB files. Each of these can be used to package the components in your application and deliver them quickly to the target computer, taking the guesswork away from the user. You can also execute applications and distribute CAB files via Internet Explorer.
Configuration settings in .NET are stored in .config files. These are simple XML-formatted text files that ...