Tonight I delivered a speech to the Orange County Architecture User Group in Irvine, CA. I definitely enjoyed all the great comments and questions from the group, thanks for attending the talk everyone!

Here is a link to my presentation slides in PDF format:

http://www.dasblonde.net/downloads/versiondeploybestpractices.zip

Some of the items mentioned during the talk:

• This overview of CLR, assemblies and versioning by Chris Sells and Don Box has some introductory info for those new to .NET internals: http://www.awprofessional.com/articles/article.asp?p=30601&seqNum=1
• Evaluate security requirements for 1.x assemblies: http://www.desaware.com/products/castester/index.aspx (ClickOnce has this built-in to VS.NET). Also, remember this does not replace developer internal knowledge and QA efforts.
• Also, don't forget to look at the links in the slides, for application updater component references and more.

And, here is a link to my versioning & deployment page:

http://www.dotnetdashboard.net/sessions/versiondeploy.aspx

On this page you'll find sample code with a detailed script that takes you through many of the demonstrations I showed tonight, in a single sample. Also in there are steps for versioning and handling publisher policy, but I have more links to add to this site when I post my slides. Stay tuned.

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NOW - I invite you to tell me your versioning and deployment pain points, I have many code samples, references and other resources and may not be organized on my site at this time...but if you ask for something that will give me incentive to post it. Tell me what you want to hear more about...