November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1176 pages
31h 19m
English
Content preview from Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2012 Unleashed, Second Edition
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Chapter 12. Deploying Code
In This Chapter
• An Overview of Client Deployment Options
• Publishing a Project with ClickOnce
Visual Studio is primarily a coding and development tool. But after you have built an application, the next problem you face is how to get it into the hands of the users. This is not an insignificant problem space. Applications might have a variety of prerequisites that need to be verified: Is the right version of the .NET Framework installed? Does the target machine have SQL Server installed? Is a supported operating system detected?
In addition to prerequisites, the actual install process involves myriad variables. Some ...