If you select to support updates, the Update Location is required and must be a valid UNC path or web site.
If you selected to install from a CD, DVD or USB drive, this page also allows you to specify if the application supports automatic updates. If you do not want the application to be available offline, it will run from the install location. If you wish to have a different location for updates, you can specify that using the Update Settings link. By default, updates are available from the Install location. When selected, this option will list the application on the users Start Menu and it allows the application to be automatically updated when a new version is published. If you selected to install from a UNC path or web site, this page allows you to specify whether the application is available offline. In the Settings page, you can provide the settings necessary for ClickOnce. In the Install location page, select where users will install the application from.
In the Specific target page, select ClickOnce.Įnter a path or select Browse to select the publish location. If you have previously configured any publishing profiles, the Publish page appears. In Solution Explorer, right-click the project and choose Publish (or use the Build > Publish menu item).
NET Framework Windows application, see Deploy a desktop app using ClickOnce (C# or Visual Basic). So now we have to take care of the Publish target.If you need to publish a. As we defined the Targets: Rebuild Publish, there will be a Rebuild and then a Publish phase in our build script. The final step is to Publish the ClickOnce package created to the IIS server. So after the compilation they will be correct according to the stage that we target. So before any compilation of our solution using the Deplo圜lickOnce, integrationDeplo圜lickOnce solution configuration the App.config and the default settings file are exchanged. The ExchangeDefaultSettings Target works the same. So we had a Target to our MSBuild script: So the only option we have to be able to exchange our configuration files is before compilation. Now we are ready for the final step in which we want to exchange some configuration files related to the different ClickOnce builds and Publish the output to an IIS server so that our testers can access the different ClickOnce package for the different stages.ĬlickOnce secure the different files that are created with checksums so that they cannot be mitigated during the installment transfer. So for Deplo圜lickOnce you will have an InstallURL and for integrationDeplo圜lickOnce you will have another one. **InstallUrl **is another configuration that we want to override because we want to create multiple ClickOnce setup installed from different urls. **ApplicationRevision **will overwrite the Application revision using the BUILD_NUMBER defined by Team City. Then you will face the your MSBuild script, and you will have to search for the configuration that we defined some steps before: To do that, right click in the Solution Explorer on our project and select Edit Project File: The solution I used is to use the Build Number offered by Team City, so I had to modify the MSBuild script to use the the BUILD_NUMBER. But this doesn’t work with our continuous integration server Team City as it would need to checkin the modified file back to subversion. The issue now is that the Publish Version automatically increment the revision with each publish.
Then using the project properties from the solution explorer in Visual Studio I had to set all Publish options I was interested in Publish Location, Installation Folder Url, Install Mode and Settings, Prerequisites…
Then in my Visual Studio 2008 solution I created several Solution configuration reflecting the different configurations that I needed during my deployment, e.g.