I have an application that has been developed in .NET 2.0; the application has no forms or GUI just a main module (Sub Main() can someone tell me what do you call such application)

This applicationiscalled by other application through command shell passingsome params. .NET application in termspost some data through web service to the targeted web server.

Question: How can I enable click once for such application (with no form or GUI)? In past I have wrote a function that can check whether there are any updates available or not. But in this case as this application is called by an external app, I do not want to check for new updates everytime this application has been called by external programs.

Hi c_shah,

Is it a console application? If it is a ClassLibrary, the publish tag is not available.

Anyway, if you don't run your ClickOnce application via shortcut, it won't have update feature.

Sincerely,
Kira Qian

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Hi c_shah,

Is it a console application? If it is a ClassLibrary, the publish tag is not available.

Anyway, if you don't run your ClickOnce application via shortcut, it won't have update feature.

Sincerely,
Kira Qian

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Yes, it is a console application.

You can use ClickOnce to install it, but know that you have to track down the exe file, which changes if you ever reinstall it or push an upgrade and then go run the app using the shortcut.

What might be better for you is to XCopy the files in your bin folder and put them in a folder on your server, and just run the console application the way you are. Since you don't really care about the ClickOnce-ness of it all, you don't have to use it in order to make the application work.

RobinDotNet

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