I'm testing a ClickOnce application deployment. I have setup a virtual directory on my machine (running IIS). I have specified http://localhost/SampleApplication as the Installation Folder URL in the Publish tab of Visual Studio. However, when I publish the application I get the following error: Warning: Files could not be downloade...
Hi! I have a ClickOnce application (app1) that calls dlls from another Solution (app2). I recently updated this application at one customer and a strange thing occured. He got the new version (publish version was correct in control panel/add remove programs) of app1 and the application version was correct as manually inspected in the a...
Hello, I migth have another question about SSL. I have a Smart Client and I deploy it using ClickOnce. In this Smart Client application, I call a HTTPS Web Service. I need so to install a Trusted Root Certification Authorities to give access to this HTTPS Web Service. Let's say that I want to keep it fully "ClickOnce", meaning that I ...
Hello, I have created a ClickOnce Solution with VS2008. My main project references another project who references COM dll as "links". When I build my solution in VS the dlls from the orther projects are moved in my bin folder but when I publish and launch the project these files are not presents in my Local Settings\Apps\2.0... folder...
I have a "ClickOnce" application that deploys without any problems from a Win2K3 server and IIS 6. But the same application fails to be deployed from a Windows Server 2008/IIS7, I receive a 404 file not found (on a .config file and not on one of the manifest files) during the installation on a client machine. In the IIS the mime types ...
How do I publish a C++/CLI Windows Forms project for ClickOnce deployment? The properties window for C++/CLI projects does not include a "Publish" tab (like in the C# projects). ...
Hi, I am installing a WPF Application using the ClickOnce deployment. There are certain settings in the app.config that need to be changed after the Application is installed. Although the app.config exists in the deployment folder as assemblyname.exe.config.deploy , after installing the application I can't seem to find it on the client m...
Is it possible to build a ClickOnce deployment, for a Win Form application, to ask for the user to agree to a License Agreement before continuing? ...
Howdy, We are looking to publish a ClickOnce application to a large Active Directory network which has to abide by the FDCC (Federal Desktop Core Configuration) which is an OMB-mandated security configuration. Does anyone have experience with this security configuration and ClickOnce applications? The application requires the ability t...
I am trying to set up a click-once deployment for an Outlook add-in in C# that uses a CE database. I found this site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6fehc36e.aspx which purports to be a method to add any file to a click-once app. However, when I follow the directions which say to add the database file to the appropriate applic...
The title says it all really. Can I make an internally generated certificate/key last longer than 12 months? ...
After reading this post and encountering the same issue (when attempting to build the manifests): MSB3171: Problem generating manifest. Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. I would like to know if anyone has had success using .NET Reactor (Encryptio...
I have installed my windows application that uses TeeChart ActiveX (a COM Component for charting) using ClickOnce. If I register manually TeeChart using regsvr32 teechart8.ocx, my application works fine. But I want and I need to install the application using ClickOnce. How can I do that? ...
I've set up my simple project in VS2008 to use a click-once installer. I've specified that the ClickOnce manifests should be signed by our comapny's pfx file. When I set this up in Visual Studio it asked for the password for the pfx file, which I gladly supplied. Everything works fine when I build and publish from within Visual Studio. I...
I have a VS 2008 ClickOnce solution that I am attempting to compile with "Sign Manifest" turned on. With this option checked, I am prompted for my PFX's password, and upon entering the correct password I receive the error: "Error Importing Key" / "Object already exists". I'm sure I've hosed something. I've tried to run the "CERTUTIL -...
In Visual Studio's Project Properties -> Signing tab, I have signed my project with a code-signing certificate. On my team, however, I'm the only one with the code-signing certificate, even though we're in a multiple-developer environment. When the other developers try to "Start Debugging", they get the following message: "cannot find t...
I have a WPF application with connections strings stored in the App.config. What is the best way of encrypting these connection strings in a click-once deployment? Thanks ...
Hi All, I have app that uses ClickOnce deployment. It works on about a dozen machines but one. I am getting following error. I found solution from http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps/msg/42d44ffe781d3610, but it requires go to the registry and delete AppType, which is not the best solution, because...
Similar questions have been asked here, but their answers are not enough to me. What I would like to know is the definite approach to encrypting connection strings in a config file. Here are my questions: Using machine-level encryption, can't anybody accessing my server write a little .Net program to read the contents of the connectio...
Currently i am publishing my app with clickonce and the V2.0 framework. Users with no framework installed, should download the extra 20Mb of the framework. What will happen if i decide to switch to the 3.5 framework? Users should download first 50-60Mb's just for the framework and then install my app? ...