In this article, Brian Myers provides an introduction to the ClickOnce deployment technology introduced in Visual Studio 2005. This introduction includes an overview of ClickOnce deployment as well as its advantages and disadvantages, and a comparison between ClickOnce and Windows Installer is presented. Finally, this article includes an example of a ClickOnce deployment as well as a discussion of some issues Brian encountered while building a real world ClickOnce deployment.

Author Brian Myers Editor David Schultz Reviewers Kunal Cheda, Neil Piggot
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There’s an interesting post on the WPFblog about the progress that’s been made with the speech API since the beta versions. Lee’s put together a (rather smart looking) app that Vista users can install via ClickOnce to demonstrate its capabilities.

Well worth checking out if you’ve got a few moments and a Vista machine. I’m not sure PC speech is going to take over the world just yet (remember the last time this was a hot topic in the mid 90’s?) but for specialist fields like call-centre switchboards, messaging services and medical prosthetics these APIs have got to be good news.

I won’t include a screenshot, as showing you an image of what a speech synthesizer looks like just seems daft!