When to Use ClickOnce

ClickOnce is a powerful technology and is useful when you need to deploy applications that require a minimum amount of interaction from the user. ClickOnce is appropriate in the following scenarios:

Image You want to provide your application with the capability of being frequently updated without writing a single line of code.

Image Your application makes use of third-party components that are not required to be installed into the global assembly cache.

You want your application to be installed by nonadministrative users.

You want to ...

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