Click Once

[CR]

I am working on the deployment portion of my first click once app. It was
created using VS 2003, with an installer, but has been upgraded to VS 2005,
and I would like to use click once. I tested the click once functionality
for installing this app many times on development pc's and it works great.

When I try to install it on a user pc which I had installed it on before
when it was VS 2003, and the installer, with no problems, I have problems. I
installed .NET 2.0 framework, from windows update, then click on the web
page install button. Internet explorer now shows what appears to be the
manifest for the application, and does not install.

On the development pc's everything works as expected. The publish.htm and
accompanying files reside
on a IIS web server that is ASP.NET 2.0 capable. I initially had published
to a local web server, but the network admin didn't want a web server
running on a local pc, so I had to change the publish location, and
republished. Everything on the project appears to be pointing to the new
server. I never tried to use the local web server to deploy to the user pc,
so I do not know if it worked before the move. What could be causing this?

 

[Marc Gravell]

I have seen this when the web-server is not returning the correct MIME types
for the files. For click-once, the web-server basically acts like a plain
file server, so asp.net shouldn't be the issue.

..application should be application/x-ms-application; can't say about the
others.

See also:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229001.aspx

Marc

 

[chanmm]

Watch out the security issue here when you are not doing it with your
development machine:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/76e4d2xw(VS.80,d=ide).aspx

chanmm