The .NET Answer
Although they are incapable of reducing deployment problems to nothing, the mechanisms put into place by the .NET runtime significantly decrease the complexity of deployment operations. This section gives an overview of the different portions of .NET related to application deployment. From here, we will examine each one in depth and illustrate how they all come together to enable you to distribute the code that you have worked so hard to write.
Self-Describing Components
Components deployed in the .NET runtime do not rely on the registry any longer. Instead, they are said to be self-describing: Each component carries its own information around as baggage that uniquely describes itself, including its version number. Components ...
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