Deployment with ClickOnce

[smartin]

Is it possible to deploy application via clickonce without signing
manifest ? I have the problem since we are deploying an application
from Linux and the process mage.exe is not running in Linux
environnement. So we are not able (as far as i have understood
clickonce techno) to make modifications in configuration files used by
our application when installing at customer sides.

If someone has some ideas i'll be very interesting.

Stéphane

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Can't you prepare the installation for the deployment on the windows
machine, and then use it to install the application?
Also, you can use mageui.exe, this is the same as mage.exe, but has a nice
windows interface.

 

[smartin]

This could be an answer but we think that this solution is not very
nice since :
- we can not do this at production time (our product is generic, we
don't want to have a production per client)
- doing the operation at installation time means : going over a windows
PC with our CD-ROM, changing deployment files and asking for a copy to
Linux system (more or less by hand).

We may turn back our mind and come back to "old" deployment method with
msi. What do you think ?

Thank you answer anymay (we did not know mageui.exe).

 

[Guest]

I to had to deal with this question.
Our product is now at Beat, so I do not mind to work like this for now, but
we decided that when we go live, we will prepare an msi based installation.
ClickOnce might be a great tool one day, but this day has not come yet in my
opinion.
For Installation I'm using a ne tool from InstallAware. The advantage in
this tool is it presents you the msi commands as a script so it is much more
clearer then regular msi based tools.

Good luck.