Using ClickOnce and XBAPs To Deploy Windows Forms and WPF Applications Guy Smith-Ferrier [email protected] Blog: http://www.guysmithferrier.com 1 Courseware Online About… Author of .NET Internationalization  – Visit http://www.dotneti18n.com to download the complete source code The .NET Developer Network  – http://www.dotnetdevnet.com – Free user group for .NET developers, architects and IT Pros based in Bristol 2 Courseware Online ClickOnce Vision To bring the ease and reliability of web  application deployment to Windows Forms applications 3 Courseware Online Agenda ClickOnce and Windows Forms  ClickOnce and WPF  XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs)  Windows Forms, WPF and XBAP Comparison  XBAPs and Silverlight Comparison  4 Courseware Online Information Sources Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce,  Brian Noyes, Addison Wesley Deploying .NET Applications, Sayed Y.  Hashimi and Sayed I. Hashimi, Apress Windows Presentation Foundation  Unleashed, Adam Nathan, Sams Publishing Pro WPF, Mathew MacDonald, Apress  Saurabh Pant's blog  – blogs.msdn.com/saurabh/archive/tags/ClickOnce /default.aspx 5 Courseware Online Online Example Create a Windows Forms application and call it  CustomerCare1 Set Form1.Text to "Customer Care" and add a button  Select Build | Publish CustomerCare1  – Click Next – Select the "No" radio button – Click Next – Click Finish In the CustomerCare1 web page click on the Run  CustomerCare1 button – In the Security Warning dialog click on Run 6 Courseware Online Online Example (continued) Close the application  Click on the Run button again and observe that the  application doesn't show the "Downloading" dialog and it starts up faster Close the application and close the web page  Add a button to CustomerCare1, publish it again  and click on the Run button – Observe that the application shows the "Downloading" dialog as it downloads the updated copy 7 Courseware Online How Does It Work ? The Publish Wizard:-  – creates a new Virtual Directory in IIS using the name of the application (e.g. CustomerCare1) – creates a new folder beneath the Home Directory (e.g. C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\CustomerCare1) adds a customized setup.exe (the Bootstrapper) to the new folder  adds a Publish.htm page which is shown to the user  adds a deployment manifest (e.g. CustomerCare1.application)  adds a version-specific deployment manifest (e.g.  CustomerCare1_1_0_0_0.application) – creates a new folder for the latest version of the application (e.g. CustomerCare1_1.0.0.0) adds the application (e.g. CustomerCare1.exe.deploy)  adds an application manifest (e.g. CustomerCare1.exe.manifest)  When the application is run it is cached so it runs faster next  8 time Courseware Online How Does Publish.htm Work ? Publish.htm includes:-  – a Button called InstallButton with an href of "setup.exe" – a section called BootstrapperSection Publish.htm includes JavaScript which is automatically executed  to determine if the .NET Framework 2.0 is installed – If it is installed:- BootstrapperSection.style.display is set to none  InstallButton.href is set to the application's deployment manifest (e.g.  CustomerCare1.application) 9 Courseware Online ClickOnce Client Requirements For browser access the client must support  URL activation e.g. – Internet Explorer Non-Internet Explorer browsers (e.g. Mozilla) will not  work because they look for the application files in the same location as the manifest files For FireFox use FFClickOnce  – http://www.softwarepunk.com/ffclickonce/ – Outlook – MSN Explorer – AOL 10 Courseware Online