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clickonce, adding native dll's, com free reg

Hi there I'm using regfree com to deploy an activex component with clickonce. The component is dependent on some native dlls that should reside in the same directory as the component. If I manually copy the native dlls to the install dir of the clickonce app ( I located the directory by using System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssem...

clickonce, applications settings, editing after publish

Hi After publishing from visual studio, how does one go about editing the published applications settings? Can you hand edit the .deploy file? Regards, Fredrik ...

ClickOnce manifest problem

We are currently deploying a WPF 4 app via click once and there is a scenario when the installation fails. If the user does not have .Net 4.0 Full install and attempts to install our app the framework installs fine but the app fails to install. If we re-run the installation again the app installs fine. Here is a copy of the log: P...

Click-Once deployment is leaving multiple versions (yes, more than 2)

I've got a click once application that is leaving all old versions on my disk. It's an internal corporate application that gets frequent updates, so this is a disaster for rapidly inflating our backup size. According to the docs and other SO questions, it is supposed to only leave the current and previous versions on disk. However, ea...

How to get the updated version in click once deployment

Hi , I have an application deployed with ClickOnce .Now when i rebuild the application with some changes , and put it in the share folder from where it is installed and launch the appluication it doesnt takes the latest version instead it just launches the old version. How should i check (which file) for new version. is there any sett...

Clickonce Deployment server asks for credentials every time I Publish from Visual Studio

I would like to set it up so that my domain account is allowed to publish a clickonce app without having to provide domain/admin (or local/admin) credentials. I had this set up once before but do not recall how or where I did this. ...

Deal with update location for click-once.

I'm not sure how many people here are experts with visual studios, but I'd imagine a handful (not to raise expectations but to appeal to your egos :P). I'm working primarily in visual basic for now (though I hope to switch to c# in the near future and maybe a java or web app). Basically I'm trying to create an update feature that will ...

Compiling a click-once app that requires administrator?

Hi, a lot of my programs require the ability to write files to the hard drive. When I first made these programs for XP they worked great. Now I'm less ignorant about UAC (got a new laptop recently). And for future customers...I've noticed the potential for a LOT of annoying error messages....and quite frankly if the program can't write d...

Changing Clickonce source folder

We copy our production build in a separate folder using post-build events, and replace the app.config file with our production app.config. However Clickonce reads the files in bin\Release folder. I have also tried copying all files from our custom build location to bin\Release folder in the post-build event, but app.config is still ove...

.net (winforms, not asp) multi-server deployment

I have a small .NET WinForms application, and couple of linux servers, DEV and CL1,CL2..CLN (DEV is development server and CL* are servers which belons to our clients, they are in private networks and it's a kind of production servers) I want an update mechanism so that (1) i develop a new version and publish it to a DEV (2) users of DE...

xamlparser error after clickonce deployment.Application crashing after installation

Hello Good People, I've built an WPF application with visual studio 2008 and created an installer for it.Works fine so far.I realized it lacks the automatic updates feature, and after trying several solutions, i decided to give a try to clickonce deployment.After a successful deployment on a network server, i 've noticed that the applica...

how to put SQL Server express R2 advance and Wt edition in the visual studio setup as a CLickOnce prerequisites

Like i said in the topic: I would like to insert as a ClickOnce prerequisites sql server express r2 editions. I can do a similar package.xml and product.xml like that of sql server express that i took from vs2010 but i don't have the public key for SQLEXPRWT_x86_ENU.exe does anyone know how to find the public key ??? ...

WPF deployment strategy dilemma.clickonce(limited customization)+autoupdate vs installer(unlimited costomization) no autoupdate

Hello Experts!!! I've been facing a deployment problem.I've built a WPF application with visual studio 2008 and created an installer(msi) which works fine.But then it's pain to add automatic update to it. i've seen this article at windowsclient.net but it seems to be pretty old but could have been the perfect thing for me.Then i looke...

Where Can I get a Web Server or File Share Server?

I'm trying to publish my program so that it can get updates and am told I have to publish my changes to a web server or file share server, but I have no idea about how I can go about getting one...are there free ones that will perform what I need to accomplish? ...

opening a file attachment from an outlook email using clickonce and a file association

Hi, I have a clickonce application (VS2010, .NET 4). I have registered a file association (.task), and this all works well. If I double click a file with the .task extension on the desktop the clickonce application opens and can open the file. If I email the file however, and double click the file from within outlook, I get the open/sa...

References missing from Clickonce Publish Application FIles section

I have winforms project that references many third party controls but when i go to the Application Files under Settings -> publish -> Application Files..they are not listed! I have the the reference set to Copy Local=True but still no luck..has been working fine for years untill now...its laso happening to another project. Any suugges...

How to deploy a c# application while including third party DLL's?

To start with, I don't know much of deployment. I hope my question makes sense. I need to install/deploy a c# application to a number of desktops. It needs a third-party DLL : a c++ library ("lpsolve55.dll", for those interested, it is a free MIP/LP solver, see lpsolve.sourceforge.net/5.5/). I use it in my code in the following way: ...

ClickOnce deployment error due to Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.9.0 Version9.0.0.0 missing from the Global Assembly Cache (GAC)

Hello all, I am developing a C# application in VS 2010 that is to be deployed via ClickOnce. However when I try to deploy the application on a client machine I get the following error: Unable to install or run the application. The application requires the assembly Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.9.0 Version 9.0.0.0 to be installe...

Open .NET app from Web Page.

Hi, I just need to be able to open a .NET app (click once) from within an ASP.NET web page, and pass 2 string parameter to the app. How can I do this? Any example please, with any method to do it. Thank you in advance. ...

how to have QA and Production installed via ClickOnce without override each other?

i am having a problem attempting to have two environments published through clickonce i have two urls one with the QA version and one with the PROD version the issue is that i can only have one at the time, if i install one it overrides the other instance. i already attempted to change publisher name and also add a Suite name to creat...