"wobbles" <.> wrote in message
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Hi Everyone,
I'm really struggling to get no-touch deployment to work well (if at all,
in some cases).
Can anyone recommend a good book on this topic?
There seem to be a lot of blogs about "no-touch deployment"/"smart
clients" but nothing that explains the entire technology, how to implement it
effectively or the various aspects involved - in any step-by-step, cohesive manner.
Also, is no-touch deployment worth pursuing?
I've read arguments for and against.
The lack of books on the topic lead me to believe that it's still in a
prototypical, "test out the waters" stage.
Should I wait for Whidbey, Longhorn, etc? How will these "improve"
no-touch deployment, if at all?
The ease of deployment it offers sounds very exciting - but I can't yet
get it to work very well.
Hi Wobbles,
Since you've been looking around, I suppose you've already read most of the
available articles on the Web. Just in case, here's a link to several
articles on the subject:
http://www.windowsforms.net/Default....=40#Deployment
When I started doing this stuff there weren't any books and I had to figure
it out on my own. Additionally, Chris Sells wrote a series of articles that
helped me immensely. I haven't bought his Windows Forms in C# book yet, but
you may want to stop by the bookstore and take a peek to see if any of the
goodness of his articles made it into the book.
Some of the toughest issues to work through, as you may know by now, have to
do with security. I've found the .NET Security/Addison Wesley book to be a
very good resource. It certainly assisted in my own understanding of the
underlying nature of CAS and set the foundation to help me figure out how to
work around NTD security problems. There are also many CAS resources at
MSDN that are very helpful.
For the customer that I build NTD apps for, their opinion was that the
benefits outweighed the technical difficulty of implementation. Seeing all
the articles and conference coverage of One-Touch in upcoming versions of
VS.NET, makes me believe that many more people feel that NTD is a viable
deployment model.
Joe
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