Can not use ClickOnce publish on .NET 4.0 application from Visual Studio 2012

Question

I installed Visual Studio 2012 and went to go publish one of our applications, that is targeted at the .NET 4.0 framework. Due to the setup on these machines, we c

Answer 1

I was having the same problem.

Rename the dotNetFx40_Full_setup.exe file that you download into the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\DotNetFX40 directory to dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe.

I was able to successfully publish my application after doing this.