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Is ClickOnce Appropriate?

Author
12 Oct 2006 4:27 PM
Ben R.
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

Author
12 Oct 2006 6:32 PM
Turkbear
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:27:02 -0700, Ben R. <benr@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:

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>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

Unless your app is better at not repeating itself, I would not allow any updates from your system..

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