Preface

DEPLOYMENT HAS BEEN a thorn in most developers’ sides for a long time. Developing complex distributed applications is challenging enough just from a design and implementation perspective. Failing to plan for deployment or having the deployed environment change on you can kill an application quickly, no matter how well you plan for it. ClickOnce does not solve this problem, but it definitely takes a big step in the right direction for streamlining deployment of smart client applications.

I was first exposed to ClickOnce more than three years ago at an early adopter lab on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. At the time, I was just starting to get immersed in smart client technology and beginning to think about how to address all aspects of ...

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