I have a ClickOnce environment like this: \Fileserver\ClickOnceApps\App1.application C:\Documents and Settings\user\Start Menu\Programs\publisher\app1.appref-ms My understanding is the .apppref-ms file is a glorified link to the app.application file. Does it do anything else? ...
We have some software we use internally which is released via ClickOnce from VS 2008. The app needs to run on everyones computer all the time so the obvious solution is to have it in the Start Up folder of their start menu. This works fine on XP machines. But, as was inevitable, people are moving to Vista. Now we're hitting a problem wh...
I would like to copy a folder (and all of its contents) during a ClickOnce deployment. The contents of this directory may change between software builds, and I need the extract structure copied to the deployment location during publishing. Currently I have to include each individual file within the folder in VS and mark it as a "Data Fi...
Hi, I am deploying an application, where I need to add two prerequisites. My problme is that I need someway to provide version to the prerequisites so that in the future may be I could only update the prerequisites without updating the entire application. Thank You Sunil Chaudhary ...
I'm a bit stuck here, I have a .net 3.5 sp1 application that I want to deploy locally to other machines on my network using ClickOnce. On installation they get a warning message saying that this application is from an unknown publisher etc. My boss does not want to buy a verisgn certificate. He just want's it to install and without pro...
Does anyone know how to create a ClickOnce publication for a CD with the publish task in MSBuild? VS2008 has a 'publish wizard' with a publish to CD radio button choice. It publishes a click once install to a local folder that is suitable for burning to a CD. We are following a scheduled MSBuild with post processing steps in which we ...
I have a annoying build process from using System.Addins API with ClickOnce. Using System.Addins requires a specific directory structure, and the main project does not reference the adapters, view, and contract directly, which doesn't work well with the ClickOnce architechture. The annoying part with the build process is that I have to ...
Hi, I'm trying to launch my ClickOnce application using C# code with HttpWebRequest class. The application can be deployed fine using IE. But when doing the deployment with my code, it seems only the .application file is downloaded to client. My code is as below. HttpWebRequest getRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("h...
I am trying to optimize startup time of one of an internal tool at my company. It however, is deployed via ClickOnce and utilized IsolatedStorage. I am using JetBrains dotTrace 3.1 to profile it but then it would not be able to start the application due to dependency on IsolatedStorage and ApplicationDeployment which requires that the ...
How can I make a Click-once deployed app run a startup? The best option I found by searching was to set the Publisher on the app to Startup, so the Start menu shortcut would be placed in the Startup folder, but that seems like a huge hack and I would like there to be a Start menu icon people can find. What options do I have? ...
I have a simple WinForms app that I am deploying internally using ClickOnce. The main application has a dependent assembly, that assembly has some xml template files marked as "Content" and "Copy Always" in the build properties, however they do not show up in the list of Application Files if I go into the Project Properties->Publish->App...
I've created a windows forms application. I have a requirement of storing some information (in the Registry, Isolated Storage or other serialization method) like ClientID which is a GUID generated from a registration form before the user can download the installation package which is currently ClickOnce deployed. The application is run o...
I've written an application in Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition. The Windows XP computer I want to install it on has two user accounts. One is the admin account, the other is the main user account and does not have admin privledges. I tried installing the application as the main user, and got an error saying i can't because I'...
Has anyone had issues with the contents of an isolated storage directory go missing or not update properly after a click once automated deployment? ...
I have a Clickonce application that is launched from the start menu (local). I would like to be able to specify a parameter so that the application can load certain data. The application lives on a fileshare and will be launched using the URL only once (like described here on MSDN). This implies that the method describe in this link will...
Is it possible to find out whether your current .Net app has been launched using a shortcut or a Clickonce application reference (*.appref-ms) file? If so, how? Some background: I am running into an issue using Microsoft Clickonce in which I cannot pass command line arguments to the application. It seems that this is the way the technol...
Whenever I try to install a Click Once application, I always get a 404 error from the setup.exe file. I've checked the physical folder the web server points to and confirmed that setup.exe exists at the correct location. The CO deployment also works fine if I open the web page using file://path/to/index.html ...
According to the FAQ to GoDaddy they support SignTool from Microsoft, but mage.exe isn't mentioned. Mage.exe is used to sign the application, but I haven't been able to figure out if mage.exe uses SignTool. If anyone have used GoDaddy's code signing certificate for ClickOnce a short confirmation would have been appreciated. ...
Is it possible to use NGen with ClickOnce deployment? ...
Is is possible to deploy VS add-ins using ClickOnce? How can I do it? ...