I know this is not ideal, but my constraint is that I have a legacy application written in Clipper. I want to launch a new, WinForms/WPF application from inside the application (to ease transition). This legacy application written in Clipper launches using: SwpRunCmd("C:\MyApp\MyBat.bat",0) The batch file contains something like thi...
I would like to make sure that my application is installed in the correct location on the hard drive or allow the user to determine the install location. How can I do that? Thanks ...
This is the situation. I have a windows form app that uses an access database to store the information. Everything has been going good. Now I am going to release a new version with an updated access file (2 new tables, 1 old table with new column). But the people that have been using the app I don't want them to loose their informati...
Users are complaining about an Outlook plug-in my developers created, saying that the "verifying application requirements" message appears when they open Outlook. We do want the check to take place, but users have requested that we hide it. Is this possible to do, and if so, what can I tell my developers to do? (What direction should I p...
am having issues with prerequisites while trying to publish my windows .net 3.5 application using clickonce. I am wanting my application to work offline as well as online, so I want to include the prerequisites in the installation and not make client download them via the internet. My prerequisites are: .Net Framework Client Profile S...
I have create 2 projects, first is main project and another is content file (excel file). I have set property of these file to copy to output directory = copy always and build action = content. However when I deploy to user site using ClickOnce, it can't find these excel file. I use code as show below to get file path. string.Format(...
I am using Mono to write a cross-platform application. On Windows, is it possible to deploy this application using ClickOnce? ...
We recently updated our main website. This included creating a new directory to hold the new site; then, some of the existing subdirectories needed to be copied over. Some of the virtual directories below the main site are clickonce publishing locations. These have been 100% successful publishing locations for 3 years now. We would updat...
Is anyone using ClickOnce with VS2010? I’m getting the following on publish, when the solution builds fine ... Building WindowsFormsApplication1... Error: Cannot publish because a project failed to build. Have tried everything, new clean project (both windforms and WPF), new temporary key, disabled pre-requisites and played with e...
Hi, I have a windows form project using VS2010 and I am deploying using clickonce. I need the application to work offline as well as online. I have configured the prerequisite - .net client profile 4 and set the location to the same as the application. Everything seems to work as expected, but upon testing I have found it takes 5+ m...
Hi, I'm publishing a ClickOnce application with VS2008, but before every publish I have to switch to Release config manually. This is fine as far as I don't forget to switch. Is there a way to prevent deploying debug builds ? Is there some compiler directive like: #if DEBUG #if ClickOnce #error You cannot publish a debug build #endif #...
Hello I recently deleted what I thought was an unused folder which happened to have the solution and code for a windows application I am maintaining. I have published the app multiple times with ClickOnce and have access to the application manifest, deploy, etc. Is there a way for me to use the published application to get back my solut...
Could someone tell me the difference between the publishing folder location and the installation folder URL? Is there any reason why these two wouldn't be the same? ...
When upgrading/installing a Clickonce application (Winforms, .NET SP1) the window in the taskbar looks like this: The actual dialog of the download/install shows the app icon. How do I get it to show something other than this silly icon in the taskbar ? ...
I have to be stupid. Searched for hours in the internet to find a solution. I couldn't find one. How do I set the icon for my start menu shortcut, when I deploy and install my application with ClickOnce? ...
Obviously I'd like to not have to install an Oracle client (other than simply a DLL), because that would prohibit my ClickOnce goal. I tried System.Data.OracleClient, but it threw an exception, "System.Data.OracleClient requires Oracle client software version 8.1.7 or greater." Update: It seems that System.Data.OracleClient is not the ...
How can I change the Publishing Folder of already deployed applications? E.G. Currently the path is \\Server1\App but I want to change this to \\Server2\App For performance reasons (Server1 is becoming overloaded) and therefore I'm planning to move majority of our shared folders including the Apps folder to a different ser...
Hello All, I am facing a peculiar issue. We use click once deployment for our windows application. It was working fine till last week. I made some changes to the application (just code nothing changed in properties) and suddenly I cannot publish anymore. When we give publish now it displays windows authentication dialog and when we prov...
I have application written in Visual Studio 2008 which I deploy with ClickOnce to network share while at work. Sometimes I work from home and I don't have VPN that allows access of shares to deploy application from outside of company. Is there a way that I could simple pack it, send thru FTP and unpack it on the server so that ClickOnce ...
Hi, I publish my application on a FTP server. I gave the FTP account information (URL, user and password) to Visual Studio but it keep asking me the FTP password each time I click the Publish now button. Why VS doesn't automatically fullfill my password? ...