Configuring ClickOnce

You can customize your ClickOnce deployment by setting its property page in My Project. Click the Publish tab to activate the ClickOnce options designer represented in Figure 55.6.

Figure 55.6 The ClickOnce properties designer enables customizing the deployment.

Notice that the upper part of the designer shows properties that you already set with the Publish Wizard. The Publish Version group enables specifying the deployment version that is important for allowing automatic updates. Automatically incrementing the revision number is a convenient way for allowing installed applications to check for updates. Just remember that the publish version is just a ClickOnce-related version and does not affect the application version. Now let’s take a look at the other available options.