Users can install the application from a CD or DVD or from
a file server or Web site. The system administrator or release engineer
is responsible for writing the files to the disk if a CD or DVD
is used.

If the files are available to the user on a server, the publish.htm file
provides easy access to the application and its prerequisites. See Application Bootstrapping.

The application can be available both online and offline, or
online only. If you select online only, the application can be run
only from the Web. Otherwise, the application is installed on the
client. It can be run from the Windows Start menu and is added to
the Add or Remove Programs page in the Windows Control Panel (Programs
and Features page on Vista and later) so that the user can roll back
to the previous version or remove the application.

Whether the application is available online only or offline
as well, all the files it needs except optional assemblies are downloaded
to the client and stored in an application-specific secure cache
in the user�s Local Settings directory. Keeping the files
in a separate cache enables the intelligent updater to manage updates
to the physical files on the user�s computer.

• Resource Files and Publish Type
  In a smart client application, image files that you add on the Resource Files page in the project painter are designated as Include files. They are installed in the same directory as the application�s executable files, libraries, and other static files.