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 believe you can download the correct setup program dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe from:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17718

(rather than renaming the .NET Framework 4 installer as suggested by Brian). Place it in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\DotNetFX40 directory. I had a similar problem with the .NET Client Profile setup. In my case I was led astray to the wrong setup program by following Microsoft MSDN Help.