Windows Installer.NET

“Future versions of the .NET framework will provide a manifest-based application installer and servicing framework with native Internet support, which provides full application lifecycle management, spanning initial discovery, download, caching, verification, servicing and application hosting in a secure environment. This technology leverages the .NET framework to provide next-generation “Smart Client” application lifecycle management.”[1]

Very cool. Haven't heard much about this yet, but it will be nice to have a standard smart client deployment framework that is a little more powerful than Assembly.LoadFrom.

[1] Headtrax performance report – 07/30/2003. Ovidiu Platon, Software Development Intern for the CLR Performance Team. http//www.gotdotnet.com/team/clr/HtxReport.doc