Visual Basic® Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library

Summary

.NET provides the developer with a host of tools that make application packaging, configuration, deployment, and licensing almost easy. From its support for XCopy deployment to its robust mechanisms for coping with shared component problems, the deployment system offered for managed code sits fully exposed for Visual Basic developers to use as needed for a wide variety of deployment scenarios.

In this chapter, we touched on

• The deployment problems that .NET has focused on eliminating

• Distributing private versus shared assemblies

• Signing assemblies with strong names

• The various methods for publishing components into the Global Assembly Cache

• Implementing custom application configuration through application configuration files

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