Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4

33.4. The Last Word

This chapter gave a quick tour of the ClickOnce deployment model, which was introduced in .NET 2.0 and remains a good choice for deploying stand-alone WPF applications. As with XBAPs, ClickOnce entails certain compromises—for example, you need to accept that there are certain client configuration details you can't control. But now that most computers have web browsers that support ClickOnce, it's become a truly practical way to deploy applications that have modest setup requirements.