MSDN Dev Chat on Zero or No Touch Deployment in the real world
On Feb 17, Robi and I will be reprising our early effort, based on the feedback - this version will be more hands on. Dev Chat: No Touch Deployment in the real world from the official descritpion:
In October 2004, Databeacon launched the Databeacon Smart Client family of products. These products use no-touch deployment to provide web reporting and data analysis capabilities to Windows PC users enabled with the .NET Framework. Join the two chief developers responsible for this project as they outline the technical strategies, obstacles and actions taken in bringing one of the first no-touch commercial software products to market. This session will focus on no-touch deployment and integration with Microsoft Office products.
If you want to learn more about No Touch Deployment and see if it makes sense for your WinForms application our dev chat will be a good place to start.
What is No Touch Deployment?
When Windows Forms applications is downloaded (from a web server), run directly on the users' machines without prior installation.
BTW you might also be interested in our success story the launch of our product (and the world's first commercial No Touch Deployment application) http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/mlevison/archive/2004/10/18/28961.aspx
Update: the chat has happened, the recording is now up at: http://www.placeware.com/cc/lmevents/view?id=msft021705ad&pw=2WRDXC