What alternatives are there to ClickOnce?

.net wix clickonce web-deployment
ScottB picture ScottB · Mar 8, 2009 · Viewed 34.2k times · Source

I've used ClickOnce a lot over the years, but I have run up against a lot of its limitations. What alternatives are there for web deployment?

So far the only one I've been able to turn up is ClickThrough, which is part of WiX now on the back burner. Are there others that have had success?

Answer

kimsagro picture kimsagro · Jan 6, 2015

Squirrel: It's like ClickOnce, but it works.

Squirrel is both a set of tools and a library, to completely manage both installation and updating your desktop Windows application, written in either C# or any other language (that is, Squirrel can manage native C++ applications).

Squirrel uses NuGet packages to create installation and update packages, which means that you probably already know most of what you need to create an installer.

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