Introducing ClickOnce

ClickOnce is the deployment technology offered by all Visual Studio editions, including the Express versions, which enables creating distribution procedures for Windows client applications in a simple way, according to one-click deployment logic. The idea behind ClickOnce is that the final user will have the ability to install an application with a minimum number of mouse clicks and interactions. This technology was first introduced with .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 and has been improved during the years. Now in .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010, ClickOnce offers additional deployment options that are explained in this chapter. ClickOnce enables publishing the deployment package to file system folders, FTP servers, ...

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