No-Touch Deployment
In addition to letting you deploy WinForms controls, .NET also lets you use IE to deploy entire WinForms applications. This is a completely new feature for the Windows platform. You can best see its value by trying it:
1. | Using the New Project dialog, create a new Windows application and call it DeploymentFun. |
2. | Feel free to drag and drop some controls from the Toolbox, but before going too far, compile your application. |
3. | In the shell explorer, navigate to your DeploymentFun\bin folder and right-click on the Debug folder, choosing Properties. |
4. | Choose Web Sharing and turn it on, using DeploymentFun as the name of the share. This will create a new Internet Information Server (IIS) Web application containing DeploymentFun.exe. ... |
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