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This is about the deployment of a Windows Forms application. I have created a Windows Forms application, but I'm not sure if the users have installed .NET version 4. I have put my Windows Forms application at my website and the users will download it to their desktop.
How do I automate the process of downloading and installing .NET 4 if the users have not installed it? What are the recommended ways of deploying Windows Forms applications to users?
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A Windows form application is an application that has a graphical user interface(GUI) like the Visual C# IDE. A console program on the other hand is a text application. There are not fancy controls like buttons or textboxes in a console application and they are run from the command prompt.
Reference the WCF serviceOn the File menu, point to Add and then click New Project. In the New Project dialog box, expand the Visual Basic or Visual C# node, select Windows, and then select Windows Forms Application. Click OK to open the project. Right-click WindowsApplication1 and click Add Service Reference.
You could try ClickOnce.
ClickOnce deployment allows you to publish Windows-based applications to a Web server or network file share for simplified installation.
You just need to define which prerequisites you want to include in bootstraper, as described here
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You could define prerequisites in your Setup And Deployment Project.
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You need to provide an installer and mark .NET as a prerequisite. See Stack Overflow question How to make an installer for my C# application? (.NET 3.5, but the idea is the same).
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