Hello,

I have deployed a clickonce application on a URL which requires a username and password to enter the installation URL for a user who is installing this.
When I try to click "install", the installation fails with a "401 Unauthorized" error code. I then tried to re-publish by incorporating the username and password for the installation URL in the manifest as follows:

Method 1: http://usernameassword@abc.xyz.com/test/App.application
Method 2 : http://abc.xyz.com/test/App.application?username=user&pass=pwd

Both the above did not work. I still get a 401 Unauthorized error. How do I go about solving this?

The only way I can think of protecting the installation URL page is to use a username and password. Is there some other way of securing the installation URL for a clickonce application?

Any help is appreciated

Subbu

Is the form based authentication feature supported in VS 2008 Professional Suite?

Only "Integrated Windows Authentication" is supported for all skus of VS2005 and VS2008.

Robert Schoen (Microsoft Visual Studio for BizApps Team)