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Visual Studio 2012 may mean one-click installs for SGDK2
bluemonkmn:
Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 is apparently now available, and my understanding is this means that one-click installs should work if I upgrade SGDK2 to use .NET 4.5 now. Do you think folks would appreciate being able to use SGDK2 as a one-click install application? (ClickOnce deployment was available before, but it was buggy when performing automatic updates.)
v6v:
Sounds neat.. is this only for installing SGDK2 or does it include the installation of SGDK2 games
I read somewhere that ClickOnce also means that applications can be run without permanent download to the hard drive.
How exactly does this work
bluemonkmn:
I was only thinking about ClickOnce installation for the SGDK2 IDE. Hopefully if you really want your game to be playable on a web site, you would just use HTML5 format instead of .NET.
My understanding of ClickOnce is that the program installs into an obscure temporary location on the hard drive like C:\Users\Ben\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\MVECRWXQ.2H6\DG4ZPB59.D0Q\clic...exe_f84b370c827b5c7a_0001.0002_none_c4007a823033b006
and then if it's still there when you want to run it again, it can just use the local copy. When I was testing ClickOnce with SGDK2, I was even able to get an icon into the start menu, and a file association for SGDK2 files (which is the part that was broken in .NET 4.0 - automatic updates failed if you had a file association), so it's very similar to a normal installation.
v6v:
--- Quote from: bluemonkmn on 2012-08-30, 05:09:52 AM ---I was only thinking about ClickOnce installation for the SGDK2 IDE. Hopefully if you really want your game to be playable on a web site, you would just use HTML5 format instead of .NET.
My understanding of ClickOnce is that the program installs into an obscure temporary location on the hard drive like C:\Users\Ben\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\MVECRWXQ.2H6\DG4ZPB59.D0Q\clic...exe_f84b370c827b5c7a_0001.0002_none_c4007a823033b006
and then if it's still there when you want to run it again, it can just use the local copy. When I was testing ClickOnce with SGDK2, I was even able to get an icon into the start menu, and a file association for SGDK2 files (which is the part that was broken in .NET 4.0 - automatic updates failed if you had a file association), so it's very similar to a normal installation.
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I'm not tech savvy, but I don't think it should be so much of a difference apart from the start menu installations (It feels nice to see the "NEW Applications Installed" bubble in Windows that highlights newly installed apps. It felt great to install SGDK1 for the first time and see that ("I finally have a program to make video games now!!")
And from what I read, the automatic updates to the SGDK2 IDE.
One thing I really liked was the NSIS installer for SGDK1. But there isn't much need for that anymore.
I don't see any objections. I keep SGDK2 pinned to my taskbar anyways.
bluemonkmn:
I guess it'll be a bit longer before SGDK2 click once installs are available because Visual Studio 2012 doesn't have express editions for desktop available yet -- only for Windows 8 and web.
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