22. Configuration and Deployment
by Dan Hurwitz, Jesse Liberty
Programming .NET Windows Applications
- Programming .NET Windows Applications
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Copyright
- Preface
- 1. Windows Forms and the .NET Framework
- 2. Getting Started
- 3. Visual Studio .NET
- 3.1. Overview
- 3.2. Start Page
- 3.3. Projects and Solutions
- 3.4. The Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
- 3.5. Building and Running
- 4. Events
- 5. Windows Forms
- 6. Dialog Boxes
- 7. Controls: The Base Class
- 7.1. Control Class
- 7.1.1. Class Hierarchy
- 7.1.2. Common Features
- 7.1.2.1. Parent/child relationship
- 7.1.2.2. Z-order
- 7.1.2.3. Changing the z-order
- 7.1.2.4. Ambient properties
- 7.1.2.5. Font
- 7.1.2.6. Size and location
- 7.1.2.7. Dynamically setting size and location
- 7.1.2.8. AutoScale
- 7.1.2.9. Anchoring
- 7.1.2.10. Docking
- 7.1.2.11. Painting the control
- 7.1.2.12. Tag property
- 7.1.2.13. Tabbing
- 7.1.2.14. Keyboard interaction
- 7.1.2.15. ImageLists
- 7.1. Control Class
- 8. Mouse Interaction
- 9. Text and Fonts
- 9.1. Text
- 9.2. Fonts
- 9.2.1. Typographical Stuff
- 9.2.2. Font Class
- 9.2.2.1. Font properties
- 9.2.2.2. Constructors
- 9.2.2.2.1. Constructor based on existing font and FontStyles
- 9.2.2.2.2. Constructor based on FontFamily and size
- 9.2.2.2.3. Constructor based on FontFamily, size, and FontStyles
- 9.2.2.2.4. Constructor based on FontFamily, size, and GraphicsUnit
- 9.2.2.2.5. Constructor based on FontFamily, size, FontStyles, and GraphicsUnit
- 9.2.2.3. Line spacing
- 9.2.3. Drawing Strings
- 9.2.4. Measuring Strings
- 10. Drawing and GDI+
- 10.1. The Drawing Namespace
- 10.2. The Analog Clock Project
- 11. Labels and Buttons
- 12. Text Controls
- 13. Other Basic Controls
- 14. TreeView and ListView
- 15. List Controls
- 16. Date and Time Controls
- 17. Custom Controls
- 18. Menus and Bars
- 18.1. Creating Your First Menu
- 18.2. The MainMenu Object
- 18.3. Toolbars
- 18.4. Writing It by Hand
- 18.5. Status Bars
- 19. ADO.NET
- 19.1. Bug Database: A Windows Application
- 19.2. The ADO.NET Object Model
- 19.3. Getting Started with ADO.NET
- 19.4. Managed Providers
- 19.5. Binding Data
- 19.6. Data Reader
- 19.7. Creating a DataGrid
- 20. Updating ADO.NET
- 21. Exceptions and Debugging
- 22. Configuration and Deployment
- 22.1. Class Hierarchy
- 22.2. Configuration
- 22.3. Assemblies
- 22.4. Build Configurations
- 22.5. Deployment
- A. Characters and Keys
- About the Authors
- Colophon
- Copyright
No software project is complete until it is properly configured and deployed on the end user's machine. Deploying and configuring Windows applications has, historically, been very difficult. One of .NET's great strengths is its easy configuration and deployment.
Configuration of .NET applications involves XML configuration files that provide a flexible and hierarchical configuration scheme. Configuration settings can apply to every application on the machine or to specific applications.
.NET's deployment is perhaps its greatest improvement over previous generations of development environments:
DLL's only need be located in a specific directory to be visible to an application (XCOPY installation).
No registration of objects is required for an application to use the contents of a DLL, either in the Registry or elsewhere. Installation does not require the registration of components with regsvr32 or any other utility, though some globally available components may be placed in the Global Assembly Cache.
There are no versioning issues with conflicting DLLs.
All these improvements are discussed in this chapter. In the meantime, shout it from the rooftops: "No more DLL Hell!"
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