Is it possible to introduce ClickOnce functionality to an existing application? The scenario is: Version 1.0 is already installed on client premises. I would like to send them a new setup package which will upgrade to 1.1, which has ClickOnce functionality, thereby making future upgrades "effortless". Barring that, are there any other ...
I have a .NET Winforms app (created in VS2005) that I deploy using ClickOnce. On one of the forms I have a Crystal Reports viewer control for the user to view the reports, but in order to use that in the app I have to include the the Crystal Reports XI Release 2 prereq which they install prior to installing the app. This basically instal...
I have big application (190 MB in 600 files) deployed using clickonce 3.5. After installation of this application i run it from link located in Start Menu but it takes over 4-12 sec to show my Splash Screen. When this application is run from .exe file Splash screen is visible after 1 sec. My application don't use automatic updates (Clic...
My ClickOnce app gives an error for a user: "Cannot download the application. The application is missing required files. Contact the application vendor or your system administrator for assistance." How can I pinpoit which file is missing? Do I manually need to put files on the publishing server? I thought when I click on the prerequisi...
Hi, I need a way to specify an application icon for a click once deployment. Basically this will be the icon shown for the application shortcut in the Start Menu - Program Files, also during the installation of the application. I can do this from VS IDE (by specifying the app icon in the application tab of the project properties). But I ...
We have an application that is being moved to .NET One part of the application will be deployed using ClickOnce, SXS (Registration-free COM to host Active-X controls which may be ported later). This part is not as big a deal, as the environment is controlled. This will be a mostly "consulted" environment. Another part is a mostly web-...
Hello, I’m trying to utilize the ".NET Framework 3.5 Client Profile" in my application but I’m not seeing the option under available perquisites. How do I get that option to show In Visual Studio 2008. This is for a ClickOnce deployment btw, and the below image is just to illustrate where ".NET Framework 3.5 Client Profile" is to go once...
I have a windows forms application that is deployed to two different locations. Intranet - ClickOnce Internet - Installed on a citrix farm through Windows installer I display ClickOnce version number for click-once deployed versionApplicationDeployment.IsNetworkDeployed. if (ApplicationDeployment.IsNetworkDeployed) return Ap...
How do I do it? Is there any reason I shouldn't? I have a winform ClickOnce App that has about 13mbs in DLLs that are not mine so I would have no need/ability to update them at any regular intervals. DevExpress(3), Microsoft ReportViewer, Microsoft SQL Replication. Microsoft SQL SMO. Without them being included in my ClickOnce App ...
I have a C# WinForms app with an About box. I am putting the version number in the about box using: FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location) .FileVersion This ends up giving me the Subversion revision number from which the executable was built. I would also like to get the date of the build into th...
When users get a new update via ClickOnce, the file modification date for the executables and dll's are getting updated to the date of installation. How can I keep them at the same date as when the project was built? ...
I know this has some crossover to Serverfault.com but the advice on meta.stackoverflow was to ask it here (first) as it requires a .NET dev to answer more than likely. I am having some problems publishing to my website a Click Once App, I am getting an error message saying (something like) IIS not running, I'm not currently at home to g...
I have an online-only clickonce application that optionally runs several difference modules. Currently all of those modules are deployed as part of a single application manifest. I would like to deploy the plug-in module dll each as a seperate application manifest. Then load each module only as needed from the main application. Is th...
Is it possible to pass command line parameters to a ClickOnce application deployed from a network share? I would like to be able to run the application with command like this: \\server\share\MyApp.application -parameter1 test -parameter2 value2 For some reason the ActivationUri is allways null. If I deploy the application to IIS and...
I need to get hold of a new ClickOnce Certificate because my temporary one has expired. My applications are only used internally so I'd like to get a certificate from our Domain Controller so installation does not have a security prompt (and doesn't expire a quickly) There are a number of Questions that come close to my issue: http://st...
Hi, i have a ClickOnce application (online only) which is deployed on a network share. People can run the application by creating a shortcut to i:\ApplicationDirectory\ApplicationName.application where i is the letter of the drive of the networkshare. I want to start the application over HTTP. For this, I need the .Application file to...
I have a ClickOnce application that has the Publisher, Suite and Program names set properly through the Publish Options dialog. For example: Publisher = Microsoft, Suite = Office, Program = Word. I want the entry in Add/Remove Program to be more than the Program name. I'd like it to contain a prefix so all programs from my suite or publ...
Hi I have WCF client server application, and create msi setup projects for both projects. Server is a windows service that hosts WCF service, client is a WPF application. Now I have a requirement to automate client update mechanism. That is on client's open it should check is there updates in the server, if yes downloads and install and ...
I am at a loss for words on this one. Hopefully one of you can clue me in... We've been using ClickOnce deployment in conjunction with CruiseControl.NET for a long time and have not had any hiccups for a long time. Yesterday, I modified was in the References tab on the project's properties and ended up tempted by the "Unused Refere...
I have an application that uses click once to deploy, and I have managed to get the application starting when a user log's in. My issues is that I need the application to start up hidden (I don't want a user to have to minimize it until they require it - I want it to sit in the system tray). Prior to using click once I simply checked th...