Introducing ClickOnce

ClickOnce is the deployment technology offered by all Visual Studio editions, and it enables you to create 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, even if the user does not have administrative rights on the machine. This technology was first introduced with .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 and has been improved over the years. Further improvements were introduced in .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010, and Visual Studio 2015 retakes them all. ClickOnce enables you to publish the deployment package ...

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