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Wow that's really cool! I wasn't sure you could register COM classes from ClickOnce.

So yes it seems like ClickOnce is great as long as you don't need per machine installs or special powers to eg upgrade the user's .NET version, etc etc.

How have you found the .application installer? (vs exe)

Edit to add: I was surprised when MS introduced .msi installers! Someone at MSFT is cranking out the installer systems.)

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I actually like the .application format. It's nice because it's just an XML file that the end-customer's computer knows what to do with it.

At my company we've actually created an ASP.NET MVC application that dynamically constructs and serves the .application file on a per-user basis. This easily allows us to do canary releasing or beta previews.

We're very happy with it, and so are our customers and stakeholders.

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