Visual Basic .NET Deployment Handbook

This book addresses the issue of deploying .NET applications. The book will cover the various deployment options available to the .NET developer, including Windows Installers, and explores more advanced topics such as Versioning, Code Signing, and Licensing.

This book covers:

The strategies and options available for deploying .NET applications

Advanced Windows Installer techniques

How to secure your applications, including code access security

Maintaining your applications with configuration and resource files

How to use the Global Assembly Cache to share assemblies between applications

Side-by-side installations of different versions of the same assembly

The various licensing options available, including developer-to-developer

The legal and technical issues involved in protecting your work