Hi,
if ClickOnce was a person i'd certainly give it a knock out right now ... I'm so frustrated with that thing, using it since the early alpha bits and always having problems with it ... now in beta 2 it doesn't work again the way it's supposed to.
The specific problems I have right now are:
As soon as I activate ClickOnce security settings, setting them to full trust and debugging the applicatin with this permission set, as soon I try to launch my application I get:
"This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Review the manifest for possible errors."
In the EventViewer i get 4 SidebySide errors:
"Generate Activation Context failed for C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Work\SamClientSolution\Client\bin\Debug\Sam.exe.Manifest. Reference error message: The manifest file does not begin with the required tag and format information."
"The application failed to launch because of an invalid manifest."
"Syntax error in manifest or policy file "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Work\SamClientSolution\Client\bin\Debug\Sam.exe.Config" on line 2."
"Syntax error in manifest or policy file "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Work\SamClientSolution\Client\bin\Debug\Sam.exe.Config" on line 2. The manifest file root element must be assembly."
Ok... so I'm checking the config file which I wouldn't see what should be wrong with it and I'm checking the manifest file, not knowing what's wrong with it either.
The weird thing is, publishing works when I go to Build -> Publish Client, however I get errors when using Publish Now or Publish Wizard:
Error 1 Publish failed with the following error: Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Work\SamClientSolution\Client\publish\Sam_1_2_0_5'. 1 1 Client
?
Error 4 Cannot publish because a project failed to build. 1 1 MshtmlInstaller
? so why can I build it manually?
Error 5 A signing key is required in order to publish this project. Publishing from Visual Studio 2005 will automatically configure a signing key for this project. C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50215\Microsoft.Common.targets 3132 9
? Well, I checked Sign the clickonce manifests and Sign the assembly using a generated key.
So, what the heck am I doing wrong? ..
Thanks,
Tom
P.S.: Here's the manifest:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <asmv1:assembly xsi:schemaLocation="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1 assembly.adaptive.xsd" manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns:dsig="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2" xmlns:asmv1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" xmlns:asmv2="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <asmv1:assemblyIdentity name="Sam.exe" version="1.2.0.4" publicKeyToken="2ee90839164f410a" language="neutral" processorArchitecture="msil" type="win32" /> <description asmv2:iconFile="houses.ico" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" /> <application /> <entryPoint> <assemblyIdentity name="Sam" version="1.2.1983.17596" publicKeyToken="43165F996C8D53FA" language="neutral" processorArchitecture="msil" /> <commandLine file="Sam.exe" parameters="" /> </entryPoint> <trustInfo> <security> <applicationRequestMinimum> <PermissionSet class="System.Security.PermissionSet" version="1" ID="Custom" SameSite="site"> <IPermission class="System.Security.Permissions.EnvironmentPermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" version="1" Read="USERNAME" /> <IPermission class="System.Security.Permissions.FileDialogPermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" version="1" Unrestricted="true" /> <IPermission class="System.Security.Permissions.IsolatedStorageFilePermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" version="1" Allowed="AssemblyIsolationByUser" UserQuota="9223372036854775807" Expiry="9223372036854775807" Permanent="True" /> <IPermission class="System.Security.Permissions.ReflectionPermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" version="1" Flags="ReflectionEmit" /> <IPermission class="System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" version="1" Flags="Assertion, Execution, BindingRedirects" /> <IPermission class="System.Security.Permissions.UIPermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" version="1" Unrestricted="true" /> <IPermission class="System.Net.DnsPermission, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" version="1" Unrestricted="true" /> <IPermission class="System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowserPermission, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" version="1" Unrestricted="True" /> <IPermission class="System.Drawing.Printing.PrintingPermission, System.Drawing, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" version="1" Level="DefaultPrinting" /> </PermissionSet> <defaultAssemblyRequest permissionSetReference="Custom" /> </applicationRequestMinimum> </security> </trustInfo> <dependency> <dependentOS> <osVersionInfo> <os majorVersion="4" minorVersion="10" buildNumber="0" servicePackMajor="0" /> </osVersionInfo> </dependentOS> </dependency> <dependency> <dependentAssembly dependencyType="preRequisite" allowDelayedBinding="true"> <assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.Windows.CommonLanguageRuntime" version="2.0.50215.44" /> </dependentAssembly> </dependency> <dependency> <dependentAssembly dependencyType="preRequisite" allowDelayedBinding="true"> <assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.mshtml" version="7.0.3300.0" publicKeyToken="B03F5F7F11D50A3A" language="neutral" /> </dependentAssembly> </dependency> <dependency> <dependentAssembly dependencyType="install" allowDelayedBinding="true" codebase="HtmlEditor.dll" size="102400"> <assemblyIdentity name="HtmlEditor" version="1.0.1983.16746" publicKeyToken="43165F996C8D53FA" language="neutral" processorArchitecture="msil" /> <hash> <dsig:Transforms> <dsig:Transform Algorithm="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:HashTransforms.Identity" /> </dsig:Transforms> <dsig:DigestMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1" /> 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