Introducing ClickOnce Deployments

ClickOnce was created to try and match the low-deployment factor of web applications. With web applications, users can merely open a browser and click on a link to access functionality. In fact, with ClickOnce, you can publish a set of binaries to a web server or file share, and users can simply click on a link to the ClickOnce package to have the application installed onto their machine.

There are three ways to deploy an application using ClickOnce:

Web/Share Deployment—In this model, your application executables or DLLs are first published to a web server or network share. You can then provide a link (either a web URL or network path) to binaries. Users can click on this link to have the applications automatically ...

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