Automate ClickOnce settings, publishings?

[Ronald S. Cook]

We have a Win app that we publish via built-in ClickOnce. However, we have
10 different locations to which we deploy the app. Each time we have a new
build to publish, we have to change the IP in a setting and also in the URL
to where we want it to publish.

Last night, we caused a problem as published the wrong connection string to
one of our locations. Its also tedious doing this 10 times.

Is there anyway to more automate this?

What would be ideal is if we could maintain a text or XML document of
settings and then have some automated script that would automate the
insertion and publishing n times.

I'm guessing the responses I get will say ClickOnce is great but very
limited and I'd need to use Windows Installer (msi file), right? I hope not
as ClickOnce is very easy to use.

Thanks,
Ron

 

[nick.fletcher]

You could try building and deploying you app from the command line -
this way you can just add all of the deployment destinations into the
build script. Theres a good article on it here

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165431(VS.80).aspx

Obviously, I have no idea about your situation but Id be questioning
why the app needs to be published to 10 different locations

Nick