Chapter 15. Web Deployment
So far, this book has been targeted at using WinForms to build applications, forms, and controls. The traditional means of deploying such code is via a setup application, or more recently, a Microsoft Installer (MSI) file. The problem is getting the setup executed on the desired client machines and, after that's done, keeping the clients up-to-date.
Web applications, on the other hand, offer a much more primitive application and control implementation framework, but a much simpler deployment model. All that's needed to keep a Web client user up-to-date is to keep the files on the Web server itself up-to-date. WinForms supports this model not only for controls hosted on a Web page but also for WinForms applications ...
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