Tuesday, March 06, 2007

How to configure Vista to enable ClickOnce publishing

by BradA via Brad Abrams on 3/6/2007 10:08:00 PM

This came up recently internally and I thought I'd share it here in case other are running into it..

Because Vista (and Longhorn Server) run the new IIS7, there are a handful of tweaks you have to make to IIS and VS to make clickonce publishing work...  Brian Noyes has a good blog on the details... But basically.

1. Configure VS to run in Admin mode:

• Go to devenv.exe in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE directory.
• Right click and go to properties.
• Select the Compatibility tab.
• Check the box at the bottom that says Run this program as an administrator (see below).
  

2.  Turn on IIS 6 compatibility as follows –

Control Panel | Programs | Turn Windows features on or off

You need the “IIS Metabase and IIS 6 configuration compatibility” feature turned on.

Oh, and yes, we are fixing both of these for Orcas RTM ;-)