Deploying .NET Applications: A Lifecycle Guide: A Lifecycle Guide (Patterns & Practices)

updating applications. See upgrading Framework applications

upgrades, distributing, 160–62

upgrading

applications, in file copy distribution, 162

automatically, configuring, 165, 166

build outputs, collection of, 163

CAB files, 160

COM components, 164

Framework applications. See upgrading Framework applications

merge modules, 159–60

private assemblies, 163

Web applications, with Visual Studio .NET, 165

upgrading Framework applications, 149–70

with Application Center, 163

deployment projects, creating for, 152

Group Policy and, 161

levels of upgrade, 150

major upgrades, 157

minor upgrades, 158

in no-touch deployment, 151

with patch packages, 153

planning strategy for, 150

small updates, 159

SMS and, 161

updating deployment projects for, 152

with Windows Installer, 152–62

User Interface Editor, 130