Does Whidbey "Click Once" make it easier to Launch No-Touch Deployment Application with Command Line Arguments??
In "Launching No-Touch Deployment Applications with Command Line Arguments", Chris Sells described a server side solution for passing arguments to a NTD app. While this works if your clients use IIS and are willing to make these changes, we've had to implement an awfully crufty hack[1] so our clients can deploy our app. Does Whidbey Click Once solve the argument passing problem, so that we won't require Full Trust to launch our smart client?
[1] We currently use a shim approach. Launch our shim as an embedded winform. Save its command line args to file. Fire up our real NTD app (using Process.Start()). It opens the file and reads the command line args. Hang our heads in shame for using such a crufty approach. Be sad because this required full trust.
Update: Chris Sells replied saying this is exactly what 'Click-Once' is supposed to solve. Time to install Whidbey and test this all out.