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ClickOnce Questions

Hi, I have a VS2008 Solution that contains a Client project, WindowsService project, and ServiceConsole project. When I deploy, I would like the WindowsService and ServiceConsole to be in the same folder since ServiceConsole needs access to WindowsService's app.config (i.e. Settings.settings) file to configure it. Is this possible wit...

Preserving user created files between Clickonce updates?

Hi, I have he following situation which I really need to resolve as soon as possible and your advise would be very appreciated. I have a clickonce application which after it is installed on the client machine the first time it creates folders X, Y and Z. Now as the user starts to use the application he creates various files in this fol...

Does my application need windows installer 3.1 as a prerequisite?

...is there any way of checking such thing? The default option as i remember was checked in my project, but it was long time agoooo ...

How to Add a ClickOnce program to the Vista TaskScheduler?

This should be a duplicate question, but I haven't be able to dig up the answer. I want to add a task to the Vista Task Scheduler that launches my ClickOnce installed program. As I understand the .exe of the application is hidden? So I tried to enter the desktop shortcut as the item to start in the Action tab. But this does not work. I g...

Directory as a bucket for a clickonce application

My application works great in debug mode but crashes after deplying it on localhost (for testing purposes) And the error message indicates that the path is invalid... And the first thing i don't get is why the directory is invalid.. I read it with: Application.StartupPath & "\Images\" C:\Documents and Settings\george\Local Settings\A...

ClickOnce Application Deployment dll reference question

Hello, I have installed an application off the web via ClickOnce. Examining the application in Reflector shows that it depends on two custom libraries--Thirteen23.Library.3 and TwitterLib. When attempting to open classes defined in these libraries, Reflector complains that "The following assembly name cannot be resolved automatically...

Clickonce ManifestReader Access Denied

Hi, Whenever I try to use: ApplicationManifest appManifest = (ApplicationManifest)ManifestReader.ReadManifest("ApplicationManifest", clientSetupFilesFolder, false); I get an "access denied" exception to the path while debugging. I am running Visual Studio 2008/SP1 under Admin. However, if I use StreamReader/StreamWriter, I have no p...

Slow startup of Clickonce winforms application after update

We have a winforms application that is deployed to users through clickonce and uses the autoupdate functionality. What we have noticed is that for our users, it takes several minutes for the application to appear after a clickonce update occurs. The application executable is running during this time with fairly high cpu usage, but no w...

What is Microsoft's roadmap for in browser applications? Silverlight, ClickOnce, ActiveX, dlls...

So here I am, first time windows developer (done java swing, iphone, flash/flex) and I'm confused by what technology Microsoft wants me to use for in browser rich applications. The application I'm designing is a file uploader that supports drag and drop from the filesystem, seems easy, I already implemented this already in Java and I fi...

User cannot Install Click once application

I have a relatively simple support application which I have chosen to deploy to our support staff via click once. I assume it's still called Click-Once. I'm using the publish tab of the project's properties in VS2008. Several users have managed to click through to the url, download and run the application. One specific user cannot. H...

ClickOnce error after delpoying -- has a different computed hash than specified in manifest.

Afer deploying my VSTO add-in with ClickOnce, I get the following error mesasge when trying to launch setup.exe: File, Addin.resources.dll, has a different computed hash than specified in manifest. Why is this happening? What can I do to fix this? ...

Deploying NLog with a ClickOnce application

Users are not able to install a ClickOnce application. The error is: "File NLog.dll is not a valid Portable Executable (PE) file." It works fine on my machine, but I have nLog installed. That's not possible for client machines. Any ideas how to get this to work? ...

ClickOnce not launching

I've got a user that is not able to launch our ClickOnce application (there are thousands of users that can just fine). They are not receiving any errors nor does the ClickOnce installation dialog display. The only thing that happens when they click the button to launch it is a progress bar shows up in the bottom of the screen saying tha...

Using the Subversion revision for the ClickOnce publish revision?

I'd like to set the ClickOnce publish revision to the Subversion revision of the code's repository — e.g. 3.1.9.2453 for version 3.1.9, based on SVN r2453. Now, for the assembly version, I know I can use TortoiseSVN's SubWCRev.exe to generate AssemblyInfo classes that contain the build revision. However, it's not quite as simple with Cl...

clickonce downloading binaries frm HTTPS site with Domain name mismatch certificate fails

My application downloads the exe's and dll's from a HTTPS website with a certificate whose Subject name/Subject Alt Name does not match the user typed in URL address host. ClickOnce rejects the certificate and aborts the download. Is there a way to instruct ClickOnce to pop-up the certificate information to the user as the Browser does. ...

Debugging ClickOnce deployment functions

I'm deploying a C# .NET application using ClickOnce and I have written code to update the application programatically (not using the option in the publish settings of the project). However I want to test the functionality of this code before deploying (for obvious reasons). How do I do this? The code has a check to see if the applicatio...

Visual Studio 2008 ClickOnce prerequisites

I'm deploying a winforms app using Visual Studio 2008. My project requries .net 3.5 which I have setup as a prerequisite in the publish settings. I would like to have the users download the prerequisites from the onsite server where the clickonce project is published. This would obviously be much faster then downloading from the vendor'...

Can I use a SSL certificate to to clickonce code signing?

Hi, As the title says, the only thing is I dont have a private key file that Brian Noyes says I need in this blog post. http://www.softinsight.com/bnoyes/2006/06/23/ManagingClickOncePublisherCertificateFiles.aspx I have a SSL certificate for a website on my server and I want to clickonce a windows app to the server. That is why I want...

Creating Browser Extensions

Hi All, ClickOnce is currently a very undersupported technology in my opinion. Currently only Internet Explorer can natively execute it, and FireFox if you use the FFClickOnce add-on. My questions are multiple (after an edit): Does anybody know of supported methods to open ClickOnce applications from Opera/Safari/Chrome? If not, wher...

Include xml files as application files and not data files in ClickOnce

By default ClickOnce will include all .xml files as data files. This results in the xml files are deployed in a data directory and not in the application directory. Is there a way to generate the manifest from MSBuild/Mage that will include xml files as application files viz., not add the writeable="applicationData" attribute. ...