Personally, I think ClickOnce was a waste of Microsoft resources and just
confused the installation space. So, keep that in mind as you read my
opinions. ClickOnce was designed for managed code line of business
applications. It installs only managed code (although you can download managed
code + native code then have the managed code launch the native code).
ClickOnce also (almost) always goes back to the original server when launching
the managed application to see if there is an update and do that all over
again. Also, ClickOnce always installs apps per-user.
I've found that there are very few degrees of freedom in ClickOnce. What is
even more frustrating is that the Windows Installer supports all of the basic
needs and everyone would have benefited if an auto-update story was built for
the Windows Installer. That's why ClickOnce frustrates me so.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Thielen
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 19:19
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Is click once what we should be using?
Hi;
We have a WIX built installer that works great. And we are working on creating
a bootstrapper for the prerequisites that would call our msi at the end to
complete the install.
Should we be looking at click once?
thanks - dave
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