Deploying Applications with Dynamically Loaded Forms What I will do in this article is talk about some of the specific deployment issues I ran into and how I solved them. Patrick’s article also digs under the covers a little to explore the mechanics of ClickOnce. The January/February 2006 issue of CoDe Magazine has an excellent overview article of ClickOnce by Patrick Darragh, a Program Manager at Microsoft who had a lot of responsibility for ClickOnce. I’m writing this article to share some of the not-so-obvious ways (including a hack or two) to use ClickOnce for application deployment. NET, ClickOnce has finally allowed me to succeed in deploying one particularly complex smart client application.īut I still had to tear a few more hairs out before I got it working and came to love ClickOnce. With VSTO, the developer can create solutions that leverage Microsoft Office applications, including the construction of add-ins, custom task panes, ribbon customizations, and smart documents.After four years of trying out every iteration of Web server application deployment that Microsoft created for.
Visual Studio Tools for Office extends the Visual Studio environment to support the development of managed code solutions for Microsoft Office. Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) fills that gap. What was missing was a layer between the PIAs and the developer’s custom application. In addition, the managed code solution was limited to running outside the process of the Office application.
Their code had to deal with the way Office maintained object lifetimes and they had to contend with lots of COM plumbing.
Even with the PIAs, this development was not for the faint of heart.NET developers often struggled. This assembly took on the responsibility of translating between the COM and managed code environments. A primary interop assembly enabled a Visual Studio developer to write code against the Office applications by adding a reference in the project. NET developer community and their managed code projects. This began to change with Office 2003 when Microsoft shipped primary interop assemblies (PIAs) as part of the advanced installation. Developing with Microsoft Office has traditionally meant developing in a COM-based world. This level of exposure and recognition has made these tools an enticing area for customization as developers wish to extend a tool that users are already comfortable with. Microsoft Office is one of the world’s most used information-worker applications.
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