Summary

With ClickOnce you can distribute the application you are producing without the hassles of creating complicated distribution packages and worrying about application updates and dependencies.

ClickOnce is a proven technology introduced with Visual Studio 2003 and now tested and extended to satisfy all the major requirements an application setup package may have. You can create a shortcut on the client desktop, an application menu item in Windows, and take advantage of many other features like providing a help URL or an error URL.

ClickOnce also lets you certify your packages by signing the code with the Authenticode technology using a custom-generated certificate or a third-party certificate like the ones provided by VeriSign, for example. ...

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