XCopy Deployment
If you have been an MS-DOS person, you will surely remember the XCopy command. It allowed copying entire directory trees, including files and subdirectories, from one location to another. In honor of this command, the most basic deployment technique in the .NET Framework is XCopy deployment. The reason for this name is that a .NET application can work when the executable and the assemblies referenced by such executable all reside in the same folder. According to this, you can deploy an application by simply copying its folder. This approach has a huge implication: Because an application folder contains a copy of required assemblies, these are isolated from one another and do not require registration anymore. Because they are ...
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