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another way to publish besides clickonce?

does vb.net have a different way to build an application without using clickonce? ...

ClickOnce Version Already Exists Warning When Publishing

I have published an app using ClickOnce for about a year with relatively few issues. This week I am off site, but needed to make some changes to the app and the way the autoupdate works - so I am publishing to the IIS of my local machine rather than the normal distribution server for testing. The wierd thing is that as of yesterday aft...

Signing ClickOnce with a Certificate?

Hello, Can anyone explain the process of obtaining a certificate to sign my ClickOnce assembly(ies)? I've got a few ClickOnce apps at my company, but they are all signed with temporary certificates created by Visual Studio. Those are obviously not Trusted Root Authorities nor Trusted Publishers. I've followed along here: http://msdn....

.NET - ClickOnce Install - Company Name and Application Name

What is the proper way to set the Company Name and Application Name in a ClickOnce Application? I have a set of projects in a solution called RecordNavigator. The GUI project is called RecordNavigator.Gui When I publish the app - I want the Start menu to have a folder called Tyndall Software and the application shortcut to be called ...

Publish ClickOnce app with MSBuild

I need a way to use MSBuild to publish a ClickOnce App to multiple PublishDir(s). I have four environment (dev, qa, model, prod) and need to generate seperate ClickOnce PublishDir(s) for each because the config files are different. One of the main issues is that MSBuild doesn't create a publish.htm file. Any help would be appreciated....

Click Once, question regarding open it with arguments

Hi guys, I created my ClickOnce application witch will install a small windows form application that consists on a WebBrowser control... I need to pass some arguments (this is made per client instalation) in order to open it correctly... as an example, let's say that I need arg(0) to be the url to open, if I generate a normal Setup I w...

Detect ClickOnce program's server?

I'm deploying a ClickOnce application. I need to find a way to detect from which server the application was downloaded and installed from - because the application checks for updates on launch, I know that somewhere it knows the "parent" server - can I get at that value somehow? I need this value because the installed program needs to a...

How to persist app.config through ClickOnce updates using ConfigurationManager?

This question describes my problem exactly, except I'm using a custom configuration section in app.config with ConfigurationManager, so the solution presented there doesn't apply... Basically, my problem is that when ClickOnce updates the application, it installs into a different directory with the new app.config, thereby erasing any ch...

Problem on IsolatedStorage with ClickOnce

I have created an application that can save data both local drive and isolated storage. Then I have tested it by deploying via ClickOnce with FullTrust. This worked correctly, but when I set it to PartialTrust (Internet zone), the application cannot start up. How to solve this problem? Thanks, Ek Add Information #1: I have tried to cr...

How to protect a virtual directory with a password in IIS7

I've placed a ClickOnce deployment inside of a virtual directory on a server running IIS7. I would like to be able to password protect the directory so I can test the application out on the WAN but I can't seem to find out how to set a password for the directory containing the ClickOnce app. Any help would be very much appriciated. ...

Solutions for sending an HTML email, where the HTML comes from an HTML file. VB.Net/ClickOnce environment

Usage: Users create pretty HTML news letters in another app. They post the newsletter to the web, but they also want to set the contents of the HTML news letter file as the body of an email and send it using Application In Question. The users understand to use absolute link and image references when sending an E Newsletter. Environm...

ClickOnce Deployment Website Modification

So I've got an app I want to deploy via ClickOnce. However, when you visit the deployment webpage, you're treated to a rather bland-ish default-style page with the application name and a "Run" button. How can I modify this page to have additional buttons, artwork, etc? I can't seem to find it in my solution anywhere. ...

xbap custom loader in internet explorer

I have a xbap application, which works fine. But the problem is that I've nested the xbap app within an iframe. The site`s background color containing the iframe is black. I want to change the xbap application loader (downloader) background color to fit the site appearance. Any ideas? ...

clickonce deployment issues

I'm working on a project deployed with clickonce, and i'm running through several issues. There are 2 components in my software solution : a desktop client which needs .Net framework 3.5 to run, and a server (asp.net application) which lists available documents and provides a way to install the desktop client with clickonce. My first p...

duplicate assemblies in a clickonce deployment

Hi, I'm investiguating clickonce deployment for a .NET application. This application contains a duplicated sets a assemblies (in different folders). The reason is that this application embed an asp.net web site that is used in-process. The winform app and the web site a sharing a set of dll for business logic and core plumbing. Whe...

Acquiring / accessing Citrix environment for QA purposes

We have a Windows Forms, .NET 2.0 application delivered via ClickOnce and driven by web services, that our customers occasionally wish to deploy into a Citrix environment. In some cases, the customer elects to allow our application to be deployed locally to user machines and bypass the Citrix server, in one case we've provided a static ...

Self-signed certificate - unable to open certificate

I need a self-signed certificate to create a clickonce app in C++. I'm a real novice at deployment, so I'm following: How to create a self signed certificate Here's the command sequence I've used makecert -r -pe -n "CN=Watersteward" -ss CA -sr CurrentUser -sky signature -sv WaterSteward.pvk WaterSteward.cer makecert -pe -n "CN=Waters...

How do I control what appears in the the 'Application Files...' dialog in Visual Studio 2008?

I've been using ClickOnce on Visual Studio 2008 SP1 for a while without incident. But I recently changed my dev environment and my .csproj file has now lost the list of files I need to deploy. The 'Application Files...' dialog now contains none of the dependencies that my application needs to run, just the assembly itself. Has anyone s...

How to add external file to application files ( clickonce / .NET)

I'm using 'Publish' option in vs2008 and I'm pretty happy how it works. Now I'd like to add 2 external *.exe files to installed package I've noticed button 'Application Files...' at publish tab but it seems doesn't allow adding new files manualy. I've played with this and found the way how to archive that: 1. add EXE files to project a...

Distributing localized winforms app

This is related to my early post today: link text So now I have demo winforms app with two different localizations, one english, one spanish. Now let's say I have a big app, let's say it supports localizations in 15 different languages. In the previous post, it was suggested that I add a few lines when the form is initialized to set the...