ClickOnce setup.exe fails, but the .application file works fine when using a Windows share for deployment

Question

I am getting the error of System.Deployment.Application.DeploymentDownloadException when I try to run setup.exe for my ClickOnce application. If run it over the

Answer 1

We use a self-extracting ZIP file to launch our installation. (There are many ways to do this, for example, use 7-Zip, WinZip, etc.) This way there is only 1 file to download.

But I'm not sure how you would handle updates in this scenario - I assume you could publish both the ClickOnce and the self extacting ZIP file so that the application finds the necessary files afterwards...

I hope this helps.