Chapter 11. Deploying Your Masterpiece Application

So, we've designed and constructed our application framework, resources and managers, added our Models, Views, and View Models and after completing the development of our application, now it's time for deployment. In this chapter, we'll be looking at an overview of the three main methods of deploying WPF applications.

We'll start by investigating the original Windows Setup Project method, move on to discover the newer InstallShield Limited Edition Project method and then progress to examine the preferred ClickOnce technology.

Installing Windows applications

In days gone by, creating a Setup and Deployment project in Visual Studio was a confusing and complicated process. However, as with just about ...

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