Summary

In this chapter, you learned about deploying, securing, and configuring Windows-based applications. We covered the following topics:

• How to create a Windows Installer file (.msi) with Visual Studio .NET to install an application along with all of its settings

• How to register, version, and share the components that you create through the use of regasm.exe, .NET versioning of strong-named assemblies, and the GAC

• The utilities and deployment options for installing Windows services, serviced components (COM+ components created with .NET), and .NET Remoting objects

• How to use the MSI file to deploy each of these types of solutions

• How to deploy .NET Remoting objects to an Internet Information Server process and the flexibility that affords you with authentication and encrypting data

• The specific security issues that arise when working with Windows services, serviced components, and .NET Remoting