Golam Kibria's List: dotNET/Deployment

• side by side installs
• in place upgrades
• In-place upgrade means that the CLR is the same but new libraries are added as well as bug fixes and performance improvements:
• The 4.5 update instead completely replaces the .NET 4.0 runtime and leaves the actual version number set at v4.0.30319.

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• decryption and decryptionKey attributes control the encryption
• Forms authentication tickets are tamper proof and encrypted by default.
• decryption and decryptionKey attributes control the encryption
• validationKey controls the hashing
• This specifies the key used to encrypt and decrypt data.
• symmetric encryption algorithm
• hashing algorithm

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• The "Debug Info" option is set to "full" for a Debug build
• Release mode, the "pdb-only" option is selected
• Including the PDB file will in no way affect the run-time performance of your code, assuming you compiled using the "pdb-only" option

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• assembly's identity
• text name, version number, and culture information (if provided)—
• A strong name consists of
• plus a public key and a digital signature
• Assemblies with the same strong name are expected to be identical.
• assign strong names to an assembly
• name uniqueness by relying on unique key pairs
• Users can be sure that a version of the assembly they are loading comes from the same publisher that created the version the application was built with
• provide a strong integrity check

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