I am trying to automate my ClickOnce builds with MSBuild. My application is already prebuilt. All I need to do is to create deployment and application manifests with MSBuild to get ready for deployment.

Hi Murzilka,

Please read the following MSDN documents for examplesof usingthe GenerateApplicationMaifest and GenerateDeploymentManifest tasks of MSBuild:

"GenerateApplicationManifest Task"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6wc2ccdc.aspx

"GenerateDeploymentManifest Task"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3k2t34e7(VS.80).aspx

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Linda Liu

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Here is a blog entry that may be of service: How To: Publish Files Which are not in the Project. You will probably need to do a little experimentation to get it just right for your scenario. I think you have to set the TargetPath metadata property on your items for the manifest generation tasks. The AssignTargetPath task (which is not officially supported) will be useful. You can probably figure out the interface for it by looking at the class definition.

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-- Mike

Hi Murzilka,

Please read the following MSDN documents for examplesof usingthe GenerateApplicationMaifest and GenerateDeploymentManifest tasks of MSBuild:

"GenerateApplicationManifest Task"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6wc2ccdc.aspx

"GenerateDeploymentManifest Task"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3k2t34e7(VS.80).aspx

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Linda Liu

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I read the provided documentation on GenerateApplicationManifest. When I provide a list of satellite assemblies to be included with the application, the task tries to put them all into root folder as opposed to putting them into something like 'de-DE'. So, it seems like there is an issue with specifying relative paths on certain items.