What deployment features does the .NET Framework offer?
The .NET Framework offers different ways to deploy your application, including: • XCOPY deployment. This is the easiest way to deploy an application built on the .NET Framework. To use XCOPY, you copy the assemblies to the installation path. This is a good option if your application does not require additional files to be installed or any customization to be performed on the client computer. • Setup projects. The .NET Framework provides a more powerful way to deploy your application than XCOPY deployment. Setup projects allow you to deploy the application and any necessary files. They also provide a detailed structure of the target file system. • Messages and information displayed during the installation process • No-touch deployment. This option allows you to make the assemblies of your application available online on a Web server. Target (client) computers can connect to the server and download the latest version of those assemblies each time the application is executed. The assembli