Deployment and Management

The .NET Framework provides a number of features that help developers and administrators configure and deploy a variety of applications. The .NET Framework also provides management services based on the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and Active Directory Services Interfaces (ADSI) technologies. The topics in this section describe these features and services and explain how to use them.

• Configuration File Schema

  Describes the configuration schema for the machine configuration file, application configuration files, and the security configuration file.

• Configuring Applications

  Describes what can be configured and why configuring an application might be useful.

• Creating Active Directory Components

  Covers the various tasks and concepts involved in working with Active Directory objects.

• Creating System Monitoring Components

  Explains how to create component instances to interact with Windows performance counters, event logs, and long-running services.

• Deploying Applications

  Describes features that make it easier to deploy a variety of applications and provides information about packaging and distributing applications with the .NET Framework.

• Managing Applications Using WMI

  Describes how to use WMI with the .NET Framework.