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Today I tried to use the publishing feature with visual studio, which creates an application manifest, and not a traditional exe.

What are the benefits of this?

I noticed each time the app starts up it does some kind of check before launching in?

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When using Publish on a Windows application, you create a ClickOnce installer. You can find a lot of information about that in the official documentation. Basically, this is an alternative to creating a conventional MSI-based setup project (File/New/Project/Other Project Types/Setup and Deployment/Setup Project).

On MSDN you can find a comparison of the two approaches.

Heinzi