Does ClickOnce work well? Any disadvantages to it?

[Big Daddy]

We have an ASP.NET web application that gets installed on a server in a
hospital and then any computer throughout the hospital's network can
access the application. I prefer Winforms applications to ASP.NET, so
I am thinking that we should replace our current one with a Winforms
application distributed through clickonce. What are the disadvantages
of doing this? I am having difficulty convincing my coworkers that
clickonce will distribute just as easily as a web application. It
seems to me that the only major disadvantage is that the client PC has
to have the .NET framework on it, which won't be the case in general.
Does clickonce work really as easily as advertised? I scanned
newsgroups to see a bunch of people having deployment problems of one
type or another with it.
thanks in advance

 

[Robbe Morris [C# MVP]]

It works best when you don't have a bunch of non-framework
dependencies such as database or other third party controls.

But, it does work. That said, the only reason you just
go down this avenue is if you can't do something on
the web. Corporate security is getting tighter and less
flexible with software installations. If you can avoid
the current mess and future messes "they" create,
you are much better off sticking with ASP.NET.