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Is ClickOnce Appropriate?Hi,
I've got an application that I currently wrap in an msi. Everything's fine, except I'd like to be able to push updates to my users. The update mechanism of clickonce deployment looks excellent and would be very useful. My application's installer doesn't touch the GAC or registry, so it seems like a good cantidate for ClickOnce. However, this application is launched from another application, and the path to the application is currently hardcoded in a configuration file (it's dependent on it being installed in the same location on every machine). I know this isn't very elegant, but it's a limitation of the other tool. Keeping that in mind, is there a way to know ahead of time where clickonce will install to? Otherwise, could I somehow take advantage of the updating mechanism with my current setup? Thanks... -Ben On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:27:02 -0700, Ben R. <benr@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:
Show quote >Hi, Unless your app is better at not repeating itself, I would not allow any updates from your system..> >I've got an application that I currently wrap in an msi. Everything's fine, >except I'd like to be able to push updates to my users. The update mechanism >of clickonce deployment looks excellent and would be very useful. My >application's installer doesn't touch the GAC or registry, so it seems like a >good cantidate for ClickOnce. However, this application is launched from >another application, and the path to the application is currently hardcoded >in a configuration file (it's dependent on it being installed in the same >location on every machine). I know this isn't very elegant, but it's a >limitation of the other tool. Keeping that in mind, is there a way to know >ahead of time where clickonce will install to? Otherwise, could I somehow >take advantage of the updating mechanism with my current setup? > >Thanks... > >-Ben On my newsserver ( microsoft.public) there are 5 copies of this message... |
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