Chapter 8. Advanced ClickOnce Topics

THE OTHER CHAPTERS in this book have focused on the key capabilities of ClickOnce: automatic installation and update, on-demand updates, working with application files, security, and the Bootstrapper. This chapter is an attempt to address the loose ends—a variety of capabilities and situations that have come up frequently regarding ClickOnce as advanced scenarios that you might need to address.

Using URL Query String Parameters

It has been a common approach in the past to let your application modify its behavior based on command line parameters passed to it when it is launched. In a .NET application, you can capture any command line parameters passed to your application with a Main method as your entry point, ...

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