Hi,
I created a Clickonce deployment of my test app and I am trying to run it on my Win XP Sp2 test box. When I click on the install button that VS 2008 creates, all I get is the manifest file displayed in my browser and it doesn't spawn the install
If I run the install against an IE7 test box, everything works ok.
Any ideas?
One thing to check is if you have .NET 2.0 Framework installed on the XP box. Just an idea to try, this has come up for me in the past on Win2k machines.
The behavior you are describing can happen if .NET 2 is not installed, since the ".application" file extension would not be associated with anything.
The first issue in this msdn article addresses your issue.
Guy Starbuck is right, one issue could be the 2.0 Framework is not installed or corrupted. However, the issue I run into more often is not having the MIME type set up correctly in IIS for .application files. Make sure that IIS is set up to associate .application files with the application/x-ms-application content type.
There is also a browser setting that can cause this. Under Security is a setting "Open files based on content, not file extension". In IE7 this does not affect ClickOnce apps, but in IE6 I have seen this setting cause the behavior you mentioned. Turning that setting off corrects the issue.