|  | For any application to be useful, it must be deployed correctly to its users, and this book addresses the issue of deploying..NET applications. The book covers the various deployment options available to the .NET developer, including Windows Installers, looks at application configuration and maintenance, and explores more advanced topics such as versioning, code signing, licensing, and protecting your intellectual property.This book covers:  The strategies and options available for deploying .NET applications  Advanced Windows Installer techniques  How to secure your applications, including code access security  Maintaining your applications with configuration and resource files  How to use the Global Assembly Cache to share assemblies between applications  Sidebyside installations of different versions of the same assembly  The various licensing options available, including developertodeveloper  The legal and technical issues involved in protecting your workWho is this book for?This book is aimed at those developing and needing to deploy nonwebbased .NET applications and components and will be demonstrated using the VB.NET language. The book will be useful to an experienced inhouse Windows application developer (who traditionally used VB6), thirdparty developers, consultants, or anyone using .NET. | 
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