Microsoft talking about ClickOnce

Super Lloyd

Might have to try it eventually! :) I was excited by that once, but I think I had some roadblocks (which I can't remember)... Looks easy enough now! :) [What's new for desktop developers building WPF, UWP & WinForms - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDYcq1yKhiA&feature=youtu.be&t=1527) (EDIT: changed the video time link!)

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GenJerDan

Roadblocks? Yes, indeed. Never got it to work at all, way back when. No real interest in trying it out again.

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Super Lloyd

I was hoping you would have recovered from your trauma by now! :O That's fine, I'll try again for us both! :D

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Slacker007

Super Lloyd wrote:

I was hoping you would have recovered from your trauma

who actually recovers from Microsoft induced trauma? A couple, at best? The rest of us are left to live the rest of our lives in misery and torment, never to see a happy day again.

Johnny J

Be careful. When I do that, try out old MS techniques, find them useful and really want to use them, normally MS decides to discontinue the technique a month later. :mad: Happened last time with Silverlight... :sigh:

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Super Lloyd

I suddenly feel as if filled by an overwhelming sadness... :(( :laugh: :thumbsup:

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Super Lloyd

Nah, it won't happen again. for sure! In other news, I started to learn VB.NET. Seems very productive and MS-Access friendly! You should try it too! ;P :laugh:

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carloscs

We have been using it for about 10 years now with 500 - 1000 users. We have 4 channels: - nightly build - internal power users - external power users - all users It works ok if somewhat clunky.

BryanFazekas

GenJerDan wrote:

Roadblocks? Yes, indeed. Never got it to work at all, way back when. No real interest in trying it out again.

How long ago was that? My group has been using ClickOnce for over 5 years -- we have dozens of internal applications deployed from a SharePoint site. Once in a while a local instance will get bolluxed and need to be deleted and re-installed, but overall it works well for us. Granted, the documentation is typical Microsoft documentation so we had to figure a lot of things out ourselves, but for internal WinForm applications, it handles installs and updates very well.

Forogar

...as if thousands of lives were suddenly ended...

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Super Lloyd

Yes. Exactly like that. Obviously! :laugh:

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Maximilien

I might miss the point, but after ten years, it should not feel clunky !! :laugh: or it's one of those things that no one knows why it works and no one wants to touch it. :rolleyes:

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Lost User

It sounds like he's talking about something bigger than your average bear.

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Mycroft Holmes

We used it from inception for WPF apps, deploying to 6 countries from Singapore, worked a treat once it was set up.

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Gary R Wheeler

I do the installers for our products. I read one article about ClickOnce, back when it was in its infancy. Like the Windows Installer-based solutions, it's over-engineered and under-documented, inflexible, and a source of endless frustration for those that are required (and therefore doomed) to use it. One of the funniest things to happen to me at work in the last few years was when the corporate IT yabbos discovered I was using unauthorized third-party software (Inno Setup[^]) for our install packages. They tried to tell me to stop until they had a chance to "vet" it. I told them (in a professional way) to get phucqed.

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carloscs

Sorry for the late answer, the mail sorter task sent the reply directly to the "read later" queue and the read task only started now. That task is really lazy, that queue now contains 1K+ entries :) Anyways, continuing the thread.. We leave ClickOnce pretty much alone and it just sorta keeps working... The clunky part is the management of deployed libraries, For example ... [searching memory...no entries found]. Ah, it all went away. Seems it's not only the good memories that go away with age. Thankfully I've not had to manage it in a long time. If I notice something strange I just poke the unfortunate low level hem, mail the unfortunate responsible for it about the problem.