Hi there,
Apologies if this NG is off-topic but I can't find anything more appropriate
(feel free to let me know). I'm looking at ClickOnce as a possible
alternative to MSI and have poured through much of the docs trying to figure
out how to customize my app's install if possible. In my deployment scenario
users will be downloading the app from my web site in WYSIWYG fashion but
I'm stuck on the following issues:
1) I need to prompt for some install info via various custom dialogs. Can
this even be done using ClickOnce? The only info I can find deals with a
custom bootstrapper but I'm not sure if this is the correct approach and
there's precious little info on the subject anyway.
2) Can users install my app into a central location like "C:\Program Files"
so all users on the machine can access it. While ClickOnce doesn't normally
require admin rights since it installs the app under each user's user
profile folder (and doesn't touch the registry), how does it avoid the bloat
that results from the same app being installed multiple times (once per
user). Is this even correct or am I missing something?
3) I also have a VS AddIn that requires installation but since it's a ".dll"
I can't figure out how to publish it. That is, VS doesn't seem to support
publishing DLL projects unlike ".exe" projects so how would this be done?
Thanks in advance.