Patrick Darragh
Patrick Darragh is a Program Manager on the Visual Basic product team at Microsoft. His team is responsible for the ClickOnce design-time experience and for Setup and Deployment projects in Visual Studio.
Contact Information:
- Email: pdarragh@microsoft.com
Articles Authored
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ClickOnce: Bringing Ease and Reliability to Smart Client Deployment
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2006 - January/February
Who said client deployment has to be difficult? Many developers would love to leverage the rich UI, high performance, and offline capability offered by smart client applications; however, they’ve been turned off by the high TCO caused by client deployment headaches. The advent of ClickOnce client deployment technology in the .NET Framework 2.0 heralds a new era where client deployment takes on the ease and reliability of Web deployment.