ClickOnce & MAGE - will not install from webpage
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Hi, can anyone help me with the following: When I use mage to create a clickonce deployment of a program called "TestClickOnce", said program will install directly from the created TestClickOnce.application manifest on the hard drive, but will not install from the web, nor will it update. The error is "+ Downloading http://localhost/installer/1.0.0.3/TestClickOnce.exe did not succeed. + The operation has timed out". Also "System.Deployment.Application.DeploymentDownloadException (Unknown subtype)" although the file does definitely exist... When I create the deployment from within visual studio, it works fine. Publishing from Visual Studio however also produces the files setup.exe, TestClickOnce_1_0_0_0.application (as well as TestClickOnce.application) and also TestClickOnce.exe.deploy (and also a webpage, but I figure that is not important). Apparently the TestClickOnce.csproj file in the project is also modified by publish in visual studio. What are these extra files, how are they useful? Are they important and if not why are they there? Is it in fact the case that I have to publish it first using msbuild or from within visual studio and only use mage for creating updates? Except only the web stuff does not work.... If anyone can answer any of these questions, provide links to answers or suggest a suitable forum on which to ask them again I would be grateful. I would also be interseted in finding out more of the intimate details on how ClickOnce works. So far I have only managed to find general information and repeats of the basic how-tos in the MS documentation.