Remove ClickOnce from a WinForms app

Question

I have a WinForms application that was going to use ClickOnce. But it turns out ClickOnce won\'t work for my application, so I\'d like to remove it. Only...there doesn\'t

Answer 1

Just in case this helps anyone...

My problem was specifically that I had a dependant "Class Library" project that had the "sign the clickonce manifest" checked but disabled so it could not be unchecked. My solution was to:

• Convert that project to a windows app,
• Re-open the properties panel,
• Remove the click once manifest signing from the signing tab on the properties panel,
• Convert the project back to a "Class Library".

I consider it an MS bug (still in VS2019 16.0.1 which I'm using now) but the workaround fixed it.

Good Luck!