Conclusion

From a Windows Forms application perspective, no-touch deployment is possibly the most powerful feature of .NET. Unfortunately, no-touch deployment isn't quite as seamless as we'd like it to be, but the NetRun application we've seen here resolves the major issues that we face.

Using NetRun and no-touch deployment, we can deploy Windows Forms applications for the same near-zero cost with which we can deploy Web Forms applications. We simply copy the application and its DLLs to a directory on the web server, and it's automatically deployed or updated to all client workstations.