Deployment from a website

[furjaw]

Visual Studio 2005 Professional:

I wrote a Windows app that I intend to sell via a website.
I successfully used a Setup project to deploy the project from a CD.
Now, I would like to have customers be able to download it from a website.
Do I simply compress it to a zip file and upload that to the website?

 

[woogoo]

You need to look into ClickOnce Deployment, this will allow you to do what you want and more.

 

[PsychoCoder]

furjaw,

Here is a great article on ClickOnce Deployment

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[furjaw]

I tried ClockOnce for deploying from CD.
I didn't like it because:
1) It buried the app so deep that nobody could ever find it.
Windows Installer puts the app in C:\Program Files.
2) I couldn't get rid of the "Unknown Publisher" warning message.
Windows Installer never gives that message.
3) It wouldn't install an icon on the desktop
(although, I saw where somebody figured out a work-around for that).

I developed the app with Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition.
I bought Visual Studio 2005 Professional just for the Windows Installer.
It looks to me like they cleverly added the above 3 limitations,
so somebody like me could develop an application without spending anything,
then, when it is complete, they would be forced to pay up!

 

[cjelec]

The “unknown publisher” warning message is because you need to register with verisign (veritas, uk) or similar, for a key that you include with the deployment/install package, no software or method will by pass that.

The install desktop icon, you can include that in your app (first time run, may have seen it with older adobe installs).

 

[furjaw]

I registered with VeriSign and included the key but I still got the "unknown publisher" warning.
I just downloaded TaxAct software and I got the warning message.
Everytime I download software from Microsoft, I get the message!

 

[cjelec]

I thought that you needed a component in your app, that uses the key to validate it with VeriSign's servers.?.

My Uncle worked on the data rights key software for Veritas, I'll ask him next time i see him.

 

[furjaw]

I am able to download my app from my website, but, I don't like the way that it works, so I decided to try ClickOnce.
here is the error that I got:

Error 1 Failed to connect to '

http://ortholabrx.net/'

with the following error: Unable to create the Web '

http://ortholabrx.net/'.

Server error: Cannot open "we80.cnf": no such file or folder. 1 1 OrthoLabRx

 

[cjelec]

Hi, looking on the web for we80.cnf, it turns out to be a frontpage extensions file. I found it out at:

http://www.frontpagetalk.com/forums/We80%cnf_file/m_59266/p_2/tmode_1/smode_1/tm.htm

They say that getting your host to add fp extensions will resolve this error.