Smart Client Deployment with Clickonce: Deploying Windows Forms Applications with Clickonce

by Brian Noyes

"ClickOnce demos may look simple, but those techniques only work for simple applications. Brian Noyes gives us the information we need to use ClickOnce in the real world, and he does it with a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321197690
• ISBN13: 9780321197696
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding Reference: Well Organized, Thorough

This is an excellent reference: it answered very clearly and quickly the questions I had about deployment in general, deployment using ClickOnce, and a clear description of the ClickOnce API. I highly recommend.

If you plan to do ClickOnce deployment you need this book

This book is very well written. Actually that can be said about any book written by Brain Noyes. It helped me a lot when I was put in charge of the ClickOnce deployment for our project. It had 99% of everything that I needed to know about ClickOnce deployment. Brian's style is very lucid and he brilliantly unfolds the steps in a very logic manner. In short, if you want to learn ClickOnce deployment, this book is a very good investment. Well done, Brian.

Informative, Light Reading

I just finished Noyes' book on Microsoft's .NET ClickOnce API and found it to be helpful in understanding most aspects of ClickOnce. It provides illustrations of the user's experience when installing an application through the API, and the book is helpful by providing information for making proactive choices when designing the architecture of your application (such as the security consequences of utilizing 3rd party controls).

Practical.Compact.Easy-to-Read.Up-to-Date

This book is a 5-stars book carrying completed information about ClickOnce from the beginning to the finish deployment of your project. It is practical, compact, easy-to-read, and up-to-date. You will enjoy reading it and finish it in few days. For .NET developer, it is a must-have book, and worth for your money. Interestingly, it shows how-to-use "ClickOnce" for both Windows and Web applications. This completed information is hardly found in other books. I am a .NET developer who has experienced for several projects. I recommend this book with Deploying .NET Applications from APress. If you can afford two books, get them both. If you can get only one of them, get this one because in my opinion, it carried deeper, wider, updated information. Enjoy ClickOnce!!!

Very Thorough

I gave this book 5 stars because it is very thorough. It covers everything there is to know about ClickOnce deployment. The author didn't miss any topic and covers the topics very thoroughly. It wasn't what I had hoped for because I already own 'Deploying NET Applications Learning MSBuild and ClickOnce'. I was hoping for more detail on securing the files downloaded to the Client, and some better advice one securing running ClickOnce with parameters. The was no new info. Both books offered the same information, and depth on the topics. So if you own 'Deploying NET Applications Learning MSBuild and ClickOnce' I would not buy this book. If you don't own a book on ClickOnce, and you want to learn all the details about it, this is an excellent book.