Deploy and update .net assembly with clickonce

Question

Want to deploy and auto-update my .net assembly. But publishing is only for winforms and wpf applications.

Found solution: create empty winforms application, add .net assembly as content, make form invisible, and deploy this app. And here will be troubles with upgrade..

Is it best solution?

Answer 1

You can have the ClickOnce install invoked by another application in order to check for updates. So whatever application is using the assembly can just do a process.start on the URL to the installation URL and it will do the update.