Both Mage and MageUI remove typelib information from deployment manifests upon updates and signing.

To set the scene, I am trying to deploy an application with ClickOnce (manually creating/altering) application
and deployment manifests. The main application is using RegFree COM and the application manifest contains the relevant typelib information. I need to be able to update and resign the application manifest with Mage and MageUI but have discovered that updating and signing witheither removes the typelib information from the application manifest file, hence I can't use RegFree COM in my application. Is this a known issue? are there any workarounds?

Many Thanks
Raj Sharma

I'm getting the same problem. Seems kind of goofy that the Click Once RegFree feature allows you to use a com OCX without registering it but if you have to add some of the com controls supporting dll's via mage, it then removes the RegFree typelib info thereby disabling the RegFree functionality. Even stranger is that this post is the only reference to the problem I've seen.