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CSharp/C# >> ClickONce. Change app.config after Publish

by Marc Gravell » Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:59:35 GMT

ClickOnce isn't going to like you messing with any of the files in the
deployment. You could manage these settings outside of ClickOnce, but
that gets messy. I simply use a script that configures app.config for
the specific environment and uses MSBuild (Target = Publish, or
something similar) to build it. You don't need Visual Studio to build
the ClickOnce deployment.

Marc
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CSharp/C# >> ClickONce. Change app.config after Publish

by QWxoYW1icmEgRWlkb3MgS2lxdWVuZXQ » Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:54:01 GMT


Mister, how build the ClickOnce deployment without Visual Studio ?? I have
custom prerequisites to.

Thanks.
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CSharp/C# >> ClickONce. Change app.config after Publish

by Marc Gravell » Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:08:04 GMT

msbuild your.csproj /target:Publish /property:Configuration=Release

(use the MSBuild from the appropriate framework directory - i.e.
%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5
or
%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727

Re the pre-reqs - as long as the pre-reqs are known the the csproj it
should work... (I haven't tried).

Marc
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