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Deploying a B-B application over the web.

Here is the scenario:
We are developing a business application for a niche market (the market is independent practitioners as individuals and small teams - the sector is not important here)
The customer base is unlikely to be very large - possibly in the hundreds or low thousands.

The application:
1. Is a Windows Forms app written in VB in Visual Studio
2. Uses the DevExpress ORM
3. The app needs to run for multiple users (small numbers - say 10 maximum) - but use a shared database
4. We would like to deploy from a web site  - currently I am using Clickonce to publish to a test site - and it seems to work OK so far - but -
5. - there is a problem with deploying the database - Each Clickonce update creates a new folder and this means that any existing data is overwritten - also we want to supply some pre-built objects stored in the database

Our question is quite a wide ranging one:-
Can anyone help us to decide on a good deployment strategy that
a) allows easy updates and also
b) has piracy protection

All suggestions welcome
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