Using Trickle-Feed Deployment

One of the headaches for anyone deploying an application to a number of clients is ensuring that all of them keep up to date with the latest version of your application. One technique you can use with the full .NET Framework is trickle-feed, or Internet, deployment. In this technique, you create a small application that functions as a bootstrap loader and loads an assembly from a URL, using the System.Reflection.LoadFrom method. The bootstrap loader stores the assembly in a download cache. Every time you run that application on the client, the bootstrap loader checks if a newer version of the application exists on the server. If a newer version exists, the program downloads the newer version of the application automatically. ...

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