Chapter 15. Deployment Strategies

Chapter 2 covered the basics every programmer should know about deploying assemblies in the Microsoft .NET world. First we examined how the common language runtime (CLR) resolves assembly references without needing any additional information from the registry. Next we considered how you can implement your own versioning and binding policies using a few simple configuration file settings. These two features represent a dramatic shift from traditional Microsoft Windows programming, and they distinguish .NET assemblies from traditional COM components.

The easy deployment features in .NET are a great improvement for developers who are trying to keep all the parts of a large distributed application up-to-date. However, ...

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