After the installation of my uwp app through a package (i created a package but haven't published it to store yet) the installation window have a 'Launch' button, which launches GUI. But my app is an edge extension which uses background task and desktop bridge. I want the installation program to launch Edge instead.
I heard that the GUI window is a requirement to publish app to store.
You need to leave entry point in the manifest empty, and then after hitting the launch button after installation from windows store edge will be opened. That's information from the guy from microsoft.
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I have a WPF app and an installer created using Setup Project in Visual Studio. The APP is having a tray icon and works based on that.
When I tried to uninstall the application folder gets uninstalled but the instance of the app is still running.
Is there a way I can close my app when it's uninstalled?.. Please help
When the program is uninstalled,you can use System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName static method to check if the process exists.if exist,close it.
such as
var notepad = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("notepad");
if (notepad.Length > 0)
notepad[0].Kill();
I have a winform app running on .net 4. When a certain condition happens, the icon running in the task bar changes from ping_logo to ping_logo_red. (the icon i'm talking about is the one that shows up when you run an application. You click on it and it will restore the windows to the screen or minimize it) The way that the icon is changing is as follows.
I added the ico files as Resources. In the code I change the resource being used
Me.Icon = My.Resources.ping_logo_red
Here is the thing. This works when I run the exe from my machine from the solution bin/release folder. When I publish this and install it from the published location, the icon does not change.
In the publish tab under the project both ping_logo.ico and ping_logo_red.ico are included in the publish status.
what have I not done that is keeping the icon from working in the published app. I've tried to uninstall the app and install it fresh but that doesn't seem to make a difference.
thanks
shannon
If you are using ClickOnce to publish your application then you need to set the icon property in the properties window of your project.
Right click your project -> Properties
Go to application tab
Select your icon file towards the bottom.
Another idea is changing the CopyToOutput property of your .ico file to "Copy Always" or "Copy If Newer".
We have a WPF Clickonce application, whcih is deployed in Server. It is working perfectly in IE. The application started installing on single click. But in Firefox and Chrome, the file was downloaded. How to overcome this? I know there are some plug-ins which will allow this as IE.
But my question is, Can I add these plugins into my application pre-requisites? Or what is the good approach to do that. Is there anyway that I could install the plugins by detecting the browsers before starting the clickonce app? I don't want my end users to do that.
Even if you find a way to embed plugins into ClickOnce-bootstrapper ("pre-requisite") you'll have to tell user to run it explicitly. ClickOnce doesn't support installing of dependencies transparently. You'll have an .exe file which user need to run. Usually VS wizard generates an html page (publish.html) which has client code for detecting missing pre-requisites. But actually it detects only missing .NET.
So you have to write some js-code for detecting missing/installed extensions for each browser you want to support.
Check this SO question: Checking if user has a certain extension installed
In anyway if a user has a link to .application and opens it in the browser then all pre-requisites will be ignored. As actually ClickOnce itself doesn't have such a feature as "pre-requisites" or "dependencies". It's just a helper for generating totally separated setup.exe bootstrapper.
Here links for extensions:
Firefox addin for ClickOnce applications - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/microsoft-net-framework-assist/
Google Chrome addin for ClickOnce applications - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eeifaoomkminpbeebjdmdojbhmagnncl
I'm writing a Silverlight OOB application. Once the user has installed it, I would like the in-browser experience, on next visit, to just have a button to launch the OOB version. I know the API call to detect that it's installed, but I'm not sure to open my main Page control as or within a Window. Currently my in-browser view changes to say "Please launch from the installed shortcut" but that seems like it should be unnecessary. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks.
Unfortunately launching OOB app from the web page is not supported. This is commonly requested feature, but it looks like SL5 is not going to address it.
I am publishing a .NET 3.5 SP1 WPF application through ClickOnce. By default, when the user clicks on the published link the application gets installed and a menu and shortcut are added to the client's Start/All Programs menu.
How can I prevent the shortcut/menu from being created? (Users need to run the application solely by clicking on the hyperlink to the ".application" file on a web page.)
For this behaviour, set it as online only. Project properties -> Publish -> "The application is available online only" (radio button).
It will still do the same local caching of files etc; it is mainly the start-menu that changes (I don't have a full list of the differences).
This can also be changed in the .application file by setting <deployment install="false"