Hi, I am using C# 2005 Express edition and I cant select a directory I want my application to install into. I would like to deploy into program files.

The Publish wizard works fine, and I can distribute my applicaiton, but I dont know where it installs into.

I cant see an exe file anywhere on the computer I deployed on, yet my app works.. Is there more deployment options in the full version of C# 2005 that i need?

[Documents and Settings Folder]\[current user name]\Local Settings\Apps\2.0\[a generated ID code]

Here's another little quirk you may encounter related to this.

My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.AllUsersApplicationData does not return the actual"All Users" data area but a data area in the cache. You'll need to use Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData to get the "All Users" folders on ClickOnce deployed apps.

If you need to make MSIs from Visual Studio Express, maybe you oughta try WIX

I also have the same issues.

Where on earth are my application files installedin my little harddrive??

Here I go, answering my own questions again

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/142dbbz4(VS.80).aspx

This tells me that ClickOnce installer only installs to the clickonce application cache. Now I have more questions for the gurus who stalk these forums. Does the click once application cache ever get overwritten?and therefore my program willgo byebye?(i dont like the term 'cache' !!)

To make an installer that install to the program filles you need to use Windows Installer.

What I dont know is if Windows installer is avaliablewith C# 2005 Express Edition? or is it only available in the full version?

Windows Installer is part of the OS and is nothing to do with .NET or C# or ClickOnce. There are a bunch of tools you can use to build MSI files, Visual Studio non-express being one of them.

[Documents and Settings Folder]\[current user name]\Local Settings\Apps\2.0\[a generated ID code]

Here's another little quirk you may encounter related to this.

My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.AllUsersApplicationData does not return the actual"All Users" data area but a data area in the cache. You'll need to use Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData to get the "All Users" folders on ClickOnce deployed apps.

If you need to make MSIs from Visual Studio Express, maybe you oughta try WIX

Iwas surely going to get stuck on thatin any moment Thanks for the tip!!