Creating a deployment project in .net : .NET client application No-Touch deployment is a great way to distribute Windows Forms applications. Using No-Touch a developer can harness the desktop's full processing power while keeping the deployment and maintenance benefits of Web applications.

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by Christopher Goldfarb, senior software architect, Intel Software Solutions Group, Intel Corp.

Harness the full processing power of the desktop while maintaining the deployment and maintenance benefits realized by Web applications.

Proper installation of Windows client applications in a corporate desktop environment has been plagued with numerous issues. These range from simple problems, like attempting to get all of the users to upgrade, to far more complicated, such as DLL versioning problems. Well, fear no more because Microsoft has developed an exciting new feature to simplify deploying and updating client applications using a Web Server. In this article, I'll first be covering the mechanics behind it, security concerns, and recommendations on what types of client apps should be deployed in that fashion.