Chapter Outlines

This guide consists of the following chapters, each of which takes you through a part of the application deployment process. Each chapter is designed to be read in whole or in part, according to your needs.

Chapter 1: Introduction

This remainder of this chapter introduces important concepts for Framework applications, defining key terms and discusses deployment issues for the .NET Frame-work itself.

Chapter 2: Planning the Deployment of .NET Framework - based Applications

Before you can effectively deploy your Framework applications, you need to understand what is involved in the deployment and how to plan effectively for that deployment. This chapter introduces the elements you are likely to deploy with a Framework application and discusses the different deployment strategies you can use, along with information on when each methodology is appropriate.

Chapter 3: Implementing the Deployment of .NET Framework - based Applications

Now that you understand the issues surrounding application deployment, you should be able to carry out the deployment itself. This chapter focuses on demonstrating the methods used to deploy applications to target computers, for each of the deployment strategies discussed in the previous chapter.

Chapter 4: Maintaining .NET Framework - based Applications

Deployment does not stop once an application has been installed. At some point after the application is successfully deployed, you may need to deploy updates. Also applications do not necessarily exist in isolation. In many cases, your applications will need to exist alongside other applications and may share resources with those applications. They may even need to exist alongside other applications build on a different version of the Framework. This chapter discusses each of these issues, showing you how you can continue to run and update your applications in more complex, real-world environments.