Summary

This chapter introduced you to the various tools available within Visual Studio for deploying both client applications and server-side ASP.NET web applications. For client applications, you learned about the two principal deployment technologies (ClickOnce and InstallShield) and the specific reasons you might choose one over the other. This chapter explored these two technologies in depth by examining how to use Visual Studio to publish a WinForms application using both methods.

This chapter also covered the tools available for deploying ASP.NET web applications from a local machine to a web server and demonstrated the tools within the IDE for accomplishing the same.