ClickOnce deployment, include font

[Guest]

special fonts are not included in my deployed windows forms application (.net
2.0). How can I include them during installation? I am using ClickOnce and
all I have read is that you need to create a Setup and Deployment package and
install the font to the users windows directory.

Would this mean I can't use ClickOnce deployment?

 

[Linda Liu [MSFT]]

Hi Robin,

Yes, you're right.

ClickOnce does not install fonts. ClickOnce is designed to be a
non-impactful install and installing fonts is considered impactful to a
user's computer.

To install font on client machines, we have to create a Setup and
Deployment package.

Hope this helps.
If you have any converns, please feel free to let me know.


Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Guest]

So can you please confirm that if I want to install a font with my
application, I cannot use ClickOnce; instead I must create a Setup and
Deployment project and deploy that way.

 

[Linda Liu [MSFT]]

Hi Robin,

Thank you for your feedback.

I suggest that you create a setup package for the fonts and use ClickOnce
to deploy your application.

When installing your program on a client for the first time, the user may
run the setup package to install the fonts first and then install the
program via ClickOnce.

If your program is updated and has a new version, the user may upgrade the
program via ClickOnce and needn't run the setup package in this case.

Hope this helps.
If you have any question, please feel free to let me know.

Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support

 

[Linda Liu [MSFT]]

Hi Robin,

How about the problem now?

If you have any question, please feel free to let us know.

Thank you for using our MSDN Managed Newsgroup Support Service!

(BTW, I will be on a long vacation from the next Monday to Friday. During
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Sorry for the inconvenience it may bring to you!)


Sincerely,
Linda Liu
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[Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]]

Hi Robin,

Since my colleague Linda is on vacation this week, I will continue to work
with you.

Based on my understanding, you wanted to deploy&install some special fonts
in ClickOnce application.

Yes, normally, ClickOnce application does not support deploying fonts to
the system font directory. However, if you want to implement such function,
you may programmatically copy the font to "C:\windows\fonts" directory and
p/invoke AddFontResourceW GDI API to add this font resource. But this
technology only allows the other applications to use this installed font
resource. Your current ClickOnce application can not use this font unless
you restarted it. A workaround is using PrivateFontCollection.AddFontFile
method to allow this font to be used in the current ClickOnce application.
Please refer to my orginal reply below:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework/msg/347f09c
3283f6b0d

Hope it makes sense to you.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Community Support
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