Does clickonce work well? Any disadvantages?

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework

21 Mar 2006 8:10 PM

johngilmer

We have an ASP.NET web application that gets installed on a server in a
hospital and then any computer throughout the hospital's network can
access the application. I prefer Winforms applications to ASP.NET, so
I am thinking that we should replace our current one with a Winforms
application distributed through clickonce. What are the disadvantages
of doing this? I am having difficulty convincing my coworkers that
clickonce will distribute just as easily as a web application. It
seems to me that the major disadvantage is that the client PC has to
have the .NET framework on it, which won't be the case in general.
Does clickonce work really easily in general? I scanned newsgroups to
see a bunch of people having deployment problems of one type or another
with it.
thanks in advance