Microsoft Clickonce Deployment

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Visual Studio provides two different technologies for deploying Windows applications: ClickOnce deployment or Windows Installer deployment.

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ClickOnce doesn't really do that, that would be 'impactful' which is really against the ClickOnce principles. There are several work arounds. I think the best would be to detect first launch, which I think there's an event for in the System.Deployment namespace, or else you can just see if the settings have been made in the app startup/load event. ClickOnce deployment overcomes three major issues in deployment: Difficulties in updating applications. With Microsoft Windows Installer deployment, whenever an application is updated, the user can install an update, an msp file, and apply it to the installed product; with ClickOnce deployment, you can provide updates automatically. ClickOnce deployment on Windows Vista.; 2 minutes to read +2; In this article. Building applications in Visual Studio for User Account Control (UAC) on Windows Vista normally generates an embedded manifest, encoded as binary XML data in the application's executable file. ClickOnce deployment is not supported when using Roaming User Profiles. While variations may sometime work such configurations are not tested. Such scenarios could be adversely affected by future product updates.

Kundli software in hindi. The Visual C++ development environment does not directly support deployment of Visual Studio C++ projects with ClickOnce, but tools are available to use it.

I have a WinForms.NET 4.5.2 clickonce application that was able to be installed or updated, until about a week ago. At that point it started to pop up an 'Application Install - Security Warning' dialog stating that the administrator has blocked this application. If you actually want that exe to be installed, you have to publish a new version of the deployment and put the whole thing on your server. For starters, if you just change the exe, and your users already have the app installed, it won't pick up the update. It doesn't check the assembly versions of the exe files, it checks the deployment version.

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Visual Studio does support ClickOnce in the Visual C# and Visual Basic development environments. If your Visual Studio C++ project is a dependency of a Visual C# project, you can publish the application (including its dependencies) using ClickOnce deployment from the Visual C# development environment.

To deploy a Visual C++ application using ClickOnce, you first have to build a ClickOnce Application Manifest and a ClickOnce Deployment Manifest using the Mage.exe (Manifest Generation and Editing Tool) or its graphical user interface version (for information, see MageUI.exe (Manifest Generation and Editing Tool, Graphical Client)).

You first use Mage.exe to build the application manifest; the resulting file will have the extension .manifest. You then use Mage.exe to build the deployment manifest; the resulting file will have the extension .application. You then sign the manifests.

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The application manifest must specify the target processor (x86, x64, or ARM). See Deploying Prerequisites for 64-bit Applications for information on these options.

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Also, the name of the application and deployment manifests must be different from the name of the C++ application. This avoids conflict between the application manifest created by Mage.exe and the external manifest that is part of the C++ application.

Your deployment will need to install any Visual C++ libraries on which your application depends. To determine the dependencies for a particular application, you can use depends.exe or the DUMPBIN utility with the /DEPENDENTS option. For more information on dependencies, see Understanding the Dependencies of a Visual C++ Application. You might need to run VCRedist.exe; this utility installs Visual C++ libraries on the target computer.

You may also need to build a bootstrapper (prerequisites installer) for your application to deploy prerequisite components; for information on the bootstrapper, see Creating Bootstrapper Packages.

Adobe digital editions nook install. For a more detailed description of the technology, see ClickOnce Security and Deployment. For a detailed example of ClickOnce deployment, see Walkthrough: Manually Deploying a ClickOnce Application.

See also

Mage.exe (Manifest Generation and Editing Tool)
MageUI.exe (Manifest Generation and Editing Tool, Graphical Client)
Makecert.exe (Certificate Creation Tool)
Deploying Desktop Applications
Deploying Applications, Services, and Components
ClickOnce Security and Deployment
Creating Bootstrapper Packages
.NET Programming with C++/CLI (Visual C++)
Native and .NET Interoperability

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A deployment manifest is an XML file that describes a ClickOnce deployment, including the identification of the current ClickOnce application version to deploy.

Deployment manifests have the following elements and attributes.

ElementDescriptionAttributes
<assembly> ElementRequired. Top-level element.manifestVersion
<assemblyIdentity> ElementRequired. Identifies the application manifest for the ClickOnce application.name
version
publicKeyToken
processorArchitecture
culture
<description> ElementRequired. Identifies application information used to create a shell presence and the Add or Remove Programs item in Control Panel.publisher
product
supportUrl
<deployment> ElementOptional. Identifies the attributes used for the deployment of updates and exposure to the system.install
minimumRequiredVersion
mapFileExtensions
disallowUrlActivation
trustUrlParameters
<compatibleFrameworks> ElementRequired. Identifies the versions of the .NET Framework where this application can install and run.SupportUrl
<dependency> ElementRequired. Identifies the version of the application to install for the deployment and the location of the application manifest.preRequisite
visible
dependencyType
codebase
size
<publisherIdentity> ElementRequired for signed manifests. Contains information about the publisher that signed this deployment manifest.Name
issuerKeyHash
<Signature> ElementOptional. Contains the necessary information to digitally sign this deployment manifest.None
<customErrorReporting> ElementOptional. Specifies a URI to show when an error occurs.Uri

Remarks

The deployment manifest file identifies a ClickOnce application deployment, including the current version and other deployment settings. It references the application manifest, which describes the current version of the application and all of the files contained within the deployment.

For more information, see ClickOnce Security and Deployment.

File location

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The deployment manifest file references the correct application manifest for the current version of the application. When you make a new version of an application deployment available, you must update the deployment manifest to refer to the new application manifest.

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The deployment manifest file must be strongly named and can also contain certificates for publisher validation.

File name syntax

The name of a deployment manifest file must end with the .application extension.

Examples

The following code example illustrates a deployment manifest.

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