Hey all,

I'm trying to figure out, if possible, to conditionally deply/publish parts of a clickonce app. Specifically, the configuration file (app.config). The scenario is there are two web server environments: Development and Production. Each with it's own configuration settings.

I want to use an MSI to install the smart client to these web servers and conditionally install the correct configuration file.

I know how to do the conditional install in the MSI. How can I get the security checks tonot complain since everything is 'signed'?

----- Ed

Yup, ClickOnce is lightweight and is built for certian needs, but it can in no way handle all that msi can. Im sorry this hasnt workedout for you.

I dont think you can do this out of the box, but you coudl do it in the application itself. It could pull a config file from some other source after install. The other option is to setup multiple deploy folders with different app.config files.

We do the 'other source' idea today. Actually, we pull config data based on an environment variable or query string (DEV, PROD, etc). That means all configs for all environments get deployed everywhere (works great for xcopy but xcopy has problems/weakneses).

I'm can use MSI conditional deployment options in non-click once apps but click once uses a totally different model.

Oh well.

Yup, ClickOnce is lightweight and is built for certian needs, but it can in no way handle all that msi can. Im sorry this hasnt workedout for you.