ClickOnce Deployment for Windows Forms

The following topics describe ClickOnce, a technology used for easily deploying Windows Forms applications to client computers.

Related Sections

• Choosing a ClickOnce Deployment Strategy
  Presents several options for deploying ClickOnce applications.

• Choosing a ClickOnce Update Strategy
  Presents several options for updating ClickOnce applications.

• Securing ClickOnce Applications
  Explains the security implications of ClickOnce deployment.

• Troubleshooting ClickOnce Deployments
  Describes various problems that can occur when deploying ClickOnce applications, and documents the top-level error messages that ClickOnce might generate.

• ClickOnce and Application Settings
  Describes how ClickOnce deployment works with application settings, which stores application and user settings for future retrieval.

• Trusted Application Deployment Overview
  Describes a ClickOnce feature that allows trusted applications to run with a higher level of permission on client computers.

• ClickOnce and Authenticode
  Describes how Authenticode technology is used in trusted application deployment.

• Walkthrough: Manually Deploying a ClickOnce Application
  Demonstrates using command-line and SDK tools to deploy a ClickOnce application without using Visual Studio.

• How to: Add a Trusted Publisher to a Client Computer for ClickOnce Applications
  Demonstrates the one-time configuration of client computers required for trusted application deployment.

• How to: Specify an Alternate Location for Deployment Updates
  Demonstrates configuring a ClickOnce application, using SDK tools, to check a different location for new versions of an application.

• Walkthrough: Downloading Assemblies on Demand with the ClickOnce Deployment API
  Demonstrates using API calls to retrieve an assembly the first time your application attempts to load it.

• How to: Retrieve Query String Information in an Online ClickOnce Application
  Demonstrates retrieving parameters from the URL used to run a ClickOnce application.

• ClickOnce Cache Overview
  Describes the cache used to store ClickOnce applications on the local computer.

• Accessing Local and Remote Data in ClickOnce Applications
  Describes how to access local data files and remote data sources from a ClickOnce application.

• How to: Include a Data File in a ClickOnce Application
  Demonstrates how to mark a file so that it is available in the ClickOnce data directory.

See Also

Concepts

Application Settings Overview