Customer Reviews

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

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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.

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!!!

Getting ready to deploy an application for a niche industry, I found information on how to do this rather scant.

This is a great starting place. Starting with an overview then going as deep down the rabbit hole as you need, Brian has layed it out rather well.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

One of the reasons I chose to review Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce: Deploying Windows Forms Applications with ClickOnce by Brian Noyes is that I had never heard of the ClickOnce technology. After going through this book, I'm now aware of what ClickOnce is and what it does. Noyes does a good job in covering a piece of software that can greatly simplify the life of a .NET developer...

Contents: Introduction to ClickOnce; Initial Deployment with ClickOnce; Automatic Application Updates; On-Demand Updates; Application and Data File Management; ClickOnce Security; Prerequisite Deployment with the Bootstrapper; Advanced ClickOnce Topics; ClickOnce Deployment of WPF Applications; Index

The "thick client" application is starting to make a resurgence on the desktop, but with it comes the problem of keeping the application up-to-date on possibly thousands of computers. ClickOnce is Microsoft's answer to that. As part of Visual Studio, ClickOnce packages an application for download and installation from the network. Then as new versions of the software become available, the application will check the home directory to see if there's an update. If so, the user has a choice (unless the developer mandates the update) to install the updates or wait until later. Bottom line is that you get the increased functionality and features of a non-browser-based application without the deployment nightmares of large software suites (like Office). Noyes starts off with an explanation of how ClickOnce works and what problems it solves, and then he dives into all the details of the software; how it works and how it can be configured to meet your particular requirements. Because the book is more tool-focused than language-focused, it really doesn't matter whether you're using Visual Basic or C#. Either type of application can use the ClickOnce technology. I was impressed at the integration with Visual Studio, and he definitely sold me on the necessity of utilizing software such as this. This was also good background material for me, as the software platform I work on will be going to this type of deployment scenario soon. I'll have a much better idea of how it all should function after reading this book...