Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Programmatically Accessing ClickOnce

As pointed out at the beginning of this chapter, ClickOnce is handled by the .NET Framework, but more precisely it is part of the .NET Framework. This means it can be accessed via managed code. The .NET Framework exposes the System.Deployment namespace that offers a managed way for interacting with ClickOnce. The subname-space System.Deployment.Application and the System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationDeployment class are the most useful items because they offer objects that enable developers to programmatically access ClickOnce information from an application. The ApplicationDeployment class exposes a shared CurrentDeployment property that enables access to interesting information on the current application ...