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Simplifying Application Installation: Deployment and Configuration

This section describes how assemblies are used to simplify the process of deploying and installing an application.

Perhaps the biggest single advantage to be gained from self-describing types and self-describing applications is ease of deployment. Rather than requiring complex registry entries, deploying a NGWS application can be as simple as copying the files that constitute the application to a directory structure on disk. The NGWS runtime can launch the application and resolve all references directly from the file system. Because each assembly describes where to locate the classes it contains, there is no need to make registry or Active Directory entries of any kind.