clickonce

Why does mage not generate a compatibleFrameworks attribute

We are using mage to generate our applications manifests as part of our build process. Upon upgrading to .Net 4 we now find it generates an invalid manifest. The reason is there is no compatibleFrameworks attribute being set in the application manifest which we generate every build. Is there anyway we can make Mage add this element of ...

ClickOnce Application Files dialog filename problem

In the ClickOnce "Application Files" files dialog, most of the entries for files are listed with the name "C". I have seen this on a colleague's machine for a different project as well. Has anyone else seen this and is there a way to get the correct filename inserted? We are both using VS 2008. ...

How to initiate an uninstall of a ClickOnce app, from within the app?

Can I reliably initiate the un-installation of a ClickOnce app, from within the app? In other words, I want to give the user a big "Uninstall Me Now" button on one of the forms. When a user clicks the button, I want to start the windows uninstall process for this app, and perhaps close the app. Reason: We are dead-ending a ClickOn...

How to share the credentials between Webform and Winform?

Hi! I want to make a login form at the Clickonce deployment webpage, and only allow the authenticated users to download the application. and I want the downloaded application to use the same credentials entered at the webpage, without prompting the users to enter the credentials again. Details: I have an application(Windows Client) whi...

Register a file association with ClickOnce

I want to associate a file extension with my ClickOnce application. There is a File Associations part in the Publish options but I can't manage to make it work. ...

Clickonce application does not update or launch.

I have a winforms application that I have deployed using clickonce, but the users navigate to a network drive and double click on setup.msi instead of using a webpage to install it. I have two users that have it installed and it's worked in the past. I did an udpate last week and now when the users try to launch the application the win...

How do we use the ProgID column in the File Associations settings?

I'm deploying my application using ClickOnce. I want to register a file association but I can't manage to make it work: What should I use as ProgID in the File Associations section of the Publish Options? ...

InstallShield setup and Click-Once

Hi InstallShield 10 apparently can create an installer and integrate with click once, but this feature is not active in trial version. Anyway I tried to create a click once deployment by hand (using mage) and succeed with a sample wpf application, what I want to do is click once with an installShield setup.exe file, buy it seems that it'...

How to publish via ClickOnce from one domain to the other?

Hello I am trying to deploy an application via Clickonce from one domain, where I'm logged in as DOMAINONE\Irwin to another, where I am granted permission via DOMAINTWO\deployer. When I try this, Visual Studio (2008) reports: Unable to access \\DOMAINTWO\publishfolder. Any advice on how to accomplish this? ...

ClickOnce Deployment Error - Access to the Path is Denied

I have a WPF app that I'm deploying to a network path using ClickOnce deployment. After the app is deployed to a network location, I use the ClickOnce html page to launch the installation process. I am successfully able to download and install the app. However, my users are not able to download and install the app. When a user naviga...

ClickOnce installing prereqs out of order

I have an Outlook plugin that I am deploying using ClickOne (right click on project file, choose publish, etc...). I recently created a blank XP VM with only Office 2007 installed. My ClickOnce installer recognizes that I need my three prerequisites (Office 2007 PIAs, .Net 3.5 Sp1, and VSTO 2010 tools). They download fine but then the in...

Are there any major problems with using .NET One-Click deployment?

I'm deploying an app to an unknown number of clients. It'll be 5-10 to start, couple dozen eventually. I'm thinking of making a different web folder for each client, so I can control updates and roll them out in a gradual manner. Are there any major known issues with One-Click deployment? Am I going to commit suicide shortly after go...

ClickOnce application configured to perform updates programmatically still sometimes displays the ClickOnce Update Available prompt

We have a WPF application deployed using ClickOnce which checks for and performs updates programmatically on application startup. This generally behaves perfectly except for the case where the user chooses "No" to our "Do you wish to update?" prompt. In this case, the next time the user launches the application (consistently) the ClickOn...

How to deploy a WPF 4 Full Trust XBAP an on intranet?

I'm having trouble running a full trust WPF 4 XBAP (browser application), created with Visual Studio 2010, from my intranet. I do not get a ClickOnce elevation prompt, as described in ScottGu's post on WPF 4: Full Trust XBAP Deployment Starting in WPF 4, the ClickOnce elevation prompt is also enabled for XAML Browser Applicati...

MSBUILD ClickOnce Error: Deployment and application do not have matching security zones

We're trying to publish a ClickOnce application through msbuild. We've got it working fine for an installed version of the windows application. However, when we set install to false so that it just runs the app from the web we get the following error when we try to run the application from the URL: "Deployment and application do not ha...

JumpList and ClickOnce - is this combination possible?

I have a WPF application which uses a JumpList (Recent only). Everything works perfectly until I deploy it using ClickOnce - the JumpList simply does not show (BTW, it does not show as well when running under VS debugger. Anybody knows if it is possible to have JumpList working from a ClickOnce deployed app? ...

How to use MSBuild to create ClickOnce files that match those created by Visual Studio

I am trying to use MSBuild in a TFS Build file to create click once files for my application. According to MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165431.aspx) it seems that the project file's click once settings should be used unless you override them with property arguments on the command line. However, even though I have spe...

Using TFSBuild to publish ClickOnce files that include prerequisites

I have declared an MSBuild tag in my TFSBuild project in order to publish ClickOnce files for my project. WSE 3.0 and .Net 3.0 are both pre-requisites for the application, so in Visual Studio I have ticked those as pre-requisites. When I build from Visual Studio, it creates a setup.exe file that I can publish to my web site. When you ...

One-Click Application Moving from WinForms to WPF

I have a WinForms app that I recently re-wrote in WPF and I need to release to my end users. I'd like to be able to have the users go to the ClickOnce install point for the WPF application and have their WinForm application removed so they don't have both on their machine What's the best way (read: easiest for users) of accomplishing th...

How to deploy ClickOnce .Net 3.5 application on 3.0 machine

I have .Net 3.5 SP1 WPF application which I'm successfully deploying to client computers using ClickOnce. Now I got new requirement - one of our clients need to run the application on machines equipped just with .Net 3.0 and it's entirely impossible to upgrade or install anything on the machines. I already tried to run the 3.5 applicatio...