Re: What's going on with ClickOnce

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Norman,
thanks for your reply...

I know it's easy to deploy a simple Win Form App, maybe one that plays
tic-tac-toe, via ClickOnce. But in the real world almost all applications
have to make calls to databases as do ASP.Net apps make calls to databases
back on the server.

As far as I can tell, there is no dialog going on anywhere on best practices
on doing this. This might mean that no one is writing real apps using
ClickOnce. Can we make an ObjectDataSource bind remotely? do we have to
use WebServices or Remoting?

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Regards,
Gary Blakely
"Norman Yuan" <NotReal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you use VS2005, ClickOnce deploy/publish is just very simple thing of a
few clicks on the VS2005 project's "Properties" form. Create a simple
"Hello World" Win form app and try it out. It may only takes your
developer a few minutes.

As for accessing backend database, I saw a post few days ago, which might
be from your developer. Well, data access has little to do with ClickOnce.
ClickOnce is a way of deploying a developed app, not developing the app.
That could be the reason that no one replying to that post. To access
database, the app (Win Form app) can use any available approach, whether
it will be deployed in ClickOnce or in other way.


"GaryDean" <GaryDean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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One of our developers has been asking questions about ClickOnce on many
of these forums and basically not getting any answers. also I notice
that I could not find a single ClickOnce Demo anywhere on the internet -
not even microsoft sites related to ClickOnce. Plenty of talk and demos
on how to develop and deploy but no demos.

Also, our developer was asking about how to call the backend database
from a ClickOnce deployed app. not a single answer.

Is the technology dead? What's going on with ClickOnce?

(please don't reply to this message with hype on how neat Framework 3.0
will be because that's still beta because I'm just looking for answers
regarding ClickOnce in 2.0 - thanks)

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Regards,
Gary Blakely






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