“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 comprehensive and organized presentation. If you expect your smart client application to move very far beyond ‘Hello,World,’ you’ll want this book to help you deploy it.”
—Billy Hollis, president/owner, Elysian Consulting, Microsoft Regional Director “Once again Brian has outdone himself. As a writer, I tend to be very critical of all technical publications, including my own . . . and it is such a pleasure to read anything Brian writes because he studies his topics well, resulting in an accurate, thorough, yet concise piece of work. ClickOnce being a new technology that deals with the pains we all have with application deployment, versioning, and security, it is important to have a text that will guide you through the learning process, give you sound advice for adopting the technology, and explain why you should even care. Brian gives his readers all of that.”
—Michele Leroux Bustamante, chief architect, IDesign, Microsoft Regional Director “ClickOnce is the key to Windows and smart client deployment. Brian’s book is the key to successfully using ClickOnce. This book walks you through using ClickOnce, from the basics to advanced scenarios. It is an excellent resource.”
—Rockford Lhotka, principal technology evangelist, Magenic Technologies, Microsoft Regional Director “Brian covers ClickOnce with a view to real-world deployment issues, which isobviously based on real-world experience. In and of itself, that is enough forme to buy the book. However, it is an even better investment by virtue of thefact that ClickOnce is a core part of the .NET Framework for Windows Forms2.0 now, and Windows Presentation Foundation in the future.”
—Michael Weinhardt, SDK programmer/writer, Application Model,Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft “This book covers the most important ingredient needed for the success of asmart client application—deployment. The author’s unassuming writing style,combined with his in-depth coverage of the topic, makes this book an invaluableresource for all serious smart client developers.”
—Vishwas Lele, principal architect, Applied Information Sciences,Microsoft Regional Director Microsoft’s new ClickOnce auto-updating technology can radically simplify application deployment. Using it, .NET developers and architects can deliver a powerful, smart client experience along with the easy maintenance of today’s best Web applications. Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Brian Noyes has unsurpassed experience previewing and teaching ClickOnce to professional developers. In Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce, Noyes demonstrates exactly how to make the most of ClickOnce in your real-world enterprise applications. Noyes covers ClickOnce design, architecture, security, installation, updates, and Bootstrapping—each with a full case study and detailed sample code. This focused, concise book explains how to

• Design client applications for efficient deployment and auto-updating

• Perform application deployments and automatic updates quickly and easily

• Deliver “on-demand” client application updates

• Deploy prerequisites with the Visual Studio 2005 Bootstrapper

• Take full control of ClickOnce’s powerful publishing, update, and security options

• Leverage the Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0 platform features that make ClickOnce possible

• Understand how your application will behave in the ClickOnce runtime environment

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 8 Ratings

Best book out there on ClickOnce - 2007-11-09
Reviewer Rating:
Of course, at the end of the day, its also really the only book out there on ClickOnce. Its a very good summary of the somewhat convoluted info available on MSDN and other Microsoft sites - it definitely made some things much clearer. It is somewhat lacking in how you would actually use ClickOnce in the real world, unless you are developing internal apps and have a fair degree of control over your servers and your users.

If you are doing anything with ClickOnce, you should definitely buy this book. Just keep in mind that you'll probably need to do some digging on your own afterwards, but this book should make that easier/possible.

Outstanding Reference: Well Organized, Thorough - 2009-07-09
Reviewer Rating:
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 - 2008-11-22
Reviewer Rating:
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.

A great primer. - 2008-10-20
Reviewer Rating:
The book is well layed out and documents the ClickOnce menus and options thoroughly. This is great for people who are not software junkies. As a techie I found the descriptions of the interface components a little long winded as most of this information can be deduced from the click once interface itself. I bought the book to troubleshoot a specific problem I was encountering installing Click Once applications with third party DLL's on Windows Vista. The book shed some light on part of the problem but was not really geared towards in depth problem solving when the technology does not work the way it is supposed to.

Informative, Light Reading - 2007-09-02
Reviewer Rating:
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).

Browse Similar Topics

Top Level Categories:
Programming

Sub-Categories:
Programming > Windows