Structure of a ClickOnce Deployment

The publish process, whatever target you select, generates a subfolder containing the following elements:

• A bootstrapper file named Setup.exe, which launches the installation.

• The application manifest, which contains information on how the application has to be run in the ClickOnce context.

• The Publish.htm file (only if the application has been published to a Web or FTP space).

• A subfolder containing the actual application and related files. This subfolder has a version number that is recognized by the .NET Framework when the application finds updates.

If you publish the application to the file system for deploying to media supports such as a CD-ROM, you just need to copy to the media the content of the publish folder.