Deployment of Third-Party Assemblies to GAC
- From: Robert E. Flaherty <RobertEFlaherty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:06:00 -0700
I'm in the process of converting a VB6.0 collection of programs to C# 3.5.
The new applications use Crystal Reports 2008, FarPoint spread and some
Telerilk controls.
The suite of applications are used by both my local client plus a few other
client in other parts of the country. Therefore, the ablitiy to provide a
reliable method to upgrade and bug fixs is important.
My current thinking (or maybe just hope) is to have a Widows installer to
install the Crystal Reports, FarPoint spread and Telerik assemblies to a
client's GAC. The frequency of updating any of these assemblies would be
much less than the upgrading of my applicaiton assemblies.
I trust if this is possbile, than I could use ClickOnce as a deployment
method for my assemblies.
My first question is: Is this approach doable and reasonable?
My second question is: If the answer to the first question 'Yes", than how
does one create a Windows Installer to the GAC for these third-party
assemblies? Is it possible to include the vendor's product key in the
Windows Installer? (When a run the Crystal Report distribution run-time on a
client machine, it asks for my product key. I am just not comformable
passing out my product keys to clients.)
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