Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Large-scale WinForms Client Deployments

2005-03-24 Thread Mike Iles
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Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Large-scale WinForms Client Deployments

2005-03-23 Thread Matthew W. Adams
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Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Large-scale WinForms Client Deployments

2005-03-23 Thread Vince Pacella
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Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Large-scale WinForms Client Deployments

2005-03-23 Thread Jones, Jason
A lot depends on what resources your app will be required to use. We went with a solution based on the application updater at www.windowsforms.net (which I don't see anymore - it might have been obsoleted by the application updater block). Our biggest enemy has been user permissions. We modi

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Large-scale WinForms Client Deployments

2005-03-23 Thread Matthew W. Adams
For app *update* you can take a look at the Updater Application Block[1] (recently upgraded to include better migration support towards One Click). Initial deployment is usually harder, unless you can already guarantee that pre-requisites (like the appropriate version of the .NET framework) are pr