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How to: Deploy an Initial Version of an Application

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After an application is properly published to a deployment server, it is ready to deploy. You (as a user) deploy a ClickOnce application to a client computer by clicking the link that the publisher provided.

For this activity, you will treat your development computer as the client computer, as well as the deployment server. Before you start this exercise, you will need to have completed the procedures in the topic, How to: Publish an Initial Version of an Application.

You will use ClickOnce to deploy and run the Bank Branch client application on your computer. For the Bank Branch client application to run correctly, the required Web services must be running first.

This procedure also demonstrates that there is no functionality in the initial version for viewing credit card account information because the initial version does not include the Credit Card Module. That module will be deployed as part of the procedure, How to: Publish an Updated Version of an Application.

To deploy an initial version of an application to a client computer

  1. Start the services that the application calls at run time.
  2. Click the link provided to you for launching the application.
  3. Accept the security warning prompt to install the application.
  4. Log on to the application and check the functionality.

For more information about this procedure, see Publishing an Initial Version of an Application (Automated Process).