No touch deployment and help files

[Guest]

As i understand it, no touch deployment works only with assemblies. How does
one deploy help files with a .net application using no touch deployment ?

 

[Marek]

I am not sure about help but we have some binary/unmanaged files that we
need to push to the client. Trick that works for us is embedding those files
as resources of .NET assembly. Once the assembly gets loaded we extract our
files on the user's machine. It does work 100%.

Marek

p.s. thank you for your insight on policy deployment - you are right,
deployment package will overwirte current policy entirely and that's problem
fo us as well

 

[Guest]

Could you give a bit more information about how to embed a file as a
resource and how you extract it ?

I was thinking of using something like webclient.download to get the files
locally.

I am starting to think about sticking with pure html files for the help.

Thanks a lot!