Deploying .NET Applications: Learning MSBuild and ClickOnce (Expert's Voice in .NET) [Paperback]

Sayed Y. Hashimi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2006 | ISBN-10: 1590596528 | ISBN-13: 978-1590596524 | Edition: 1

Whether building a console application, a web service, or a smart client, you eventually need to distribute your finished work. Deploying .NET Applications is a complete guide to delivering applications built with .NET. Packed with hands-on guidance, practical examples, and war stories from the authors many experiences with deployment scenarios, this book provides everything you need to know.

The book begins by introducing the deployment problem, then examines why deployment is an engineering problem for organizations. Subsequent chapters provide detail about deploying each type of application, then discuss automated deployments.

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About the Author

Sayed Y. Hashimi is the author of Pro Android, as well as a consultant and trainer in Jacksonville, Florida. Sayed has worked for startups and Fortune 100 companies. He has developed large-scale distributed applications with a variety of programming languages and platforms, including C++, Java, and .NET. Sayed has published in major software journals on topics ranging from low-level programming techniques to high-level architecture concepts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (May 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590596528
• ISBN-13: 978-1590596524
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #873,706 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Overview but little details, January 16, 2007

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J. Leonard "redmondjoe" (Redmond, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deploying .NET Applications: Learning MSBuild and ClickOnce (Expert's Voice in .NET) (Paperback)

This is just an overview summary of MSBuild. Lots of properties are mentioned but no indication of how to use them and what the parameters are. However, it seems to be the only book on the market. Read this book first then you must go to MSDN to get the details. MSBuild in general is not very well documented. These authors do not give any practical examples unfortunately.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars good, not great, October 11, 2007

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Björn "Björn" (CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deploying .NET Applications: Learning MSBuild and ClickOnce (Expert's Voice in .NET) (Paperback)

The author is apparently quite knowledgeable in MSBuild & ClickOnce, and shared some of the insights in this book, such as how to customize your build. The main negative is that, he sometimes just jumps into a topic or use a term without properly explaining the the fundamentals. For example, incremental build is a big topic that's not properly explained.

It's would have been much better to give a clear "problem statement" about the fundamental problem that incremental build is supposed to solve, then describe how this can be done logically, then show how the specific technology (ie msbuild) does this; but he tends to belabor the technologies used instead.

Another problem is that the author didnt do his homework well and incorrectly described several terms: e.g he said SCM stands for "Source Control Management", which we all know should be Software Configuration Management. He said BITS is Binary Intelligent Transfer Service (when it should be Background ...). This sort of things tend to undermine his credibility.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ClickOnce... as easy as it gets, November 10, 2006

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Matthias Hess - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deploying .NET Applications: Learning MSBuild and ClickOnce (Expert's Voice in .NET) (Paperback)

This book explains how to use ClickOnce in Real-World Scenarios. It does not only explain what you need to do to get ClickOnce running with your app, but also how things work behind the scenes, and why MS built ClickOnce the way they did. First we were a bit shy to use ClickOnce, because we thought it might be just another bloated MS Technology. Thanks to Sayeds Book, however, we spared the work to write our own solution, and we are confident to have the right solution for our needs. Thanks, Sayed!