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As mentioned in the introduction to this course, one negative about most MS Press books is that you often get the Microsoft "party line" rather than the whole story. But correcting that is one of the goals of this course. Since the book covers the Microsoft deployment solution so well, in this lesson, we branch out to non-Microsoft solutions! |
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Deployment software is a whole category with a number of different software companies competing to provide alternatives to the "bundled" software that has been packaged "in the box" from Microsoft for years. And, since the non-Microsoft alternatives can be pretty pricey, you might assume that they have a lot of features that are difficult to get with the "in the box" Microsoft deployment software. You might be right. For example, all of the major solutions let you deploy the .NET Framework along with your application if you choose to. The book notes that Microsoft has removed this capability from their deployment templates and wizards. And custom scripting languages for personalizing your deployment solution are included in both Installshield and Wise. More on the next page. |
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Chapter 14 of our text book, Microsoft Visual Basic Step by Step, is the most complete so far. If you read the chapter carefully, you will be totally prepared to do simple deployment projects. (Wellll .... there are a few clarifications at the end of this lesson. But that's close to a hundred percent score.)
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