ClickOnce application autostart and clean uninstall or the way to customize ClickOnce installation

Ivan Leonenko

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Approach of light install/uninstall customizations for ClickOnce, including autostart and clean up on uninstall.

customizedclickonce_published.zip
- customizedclickonce
  - Application Files
    - CustomizedClickOnce_1_0_0_0
      - CustomizedClickOnce.application
      - CustomizedClickOnce.Common.dll.deploy
      - CustomizedClickOnce.exe.config.deploy
      - CustomizedClickOnce.exe.deploy
      - CustomizedClickOnce.exe.manifest
      - Snowflake-icon.ico.deploy
      - uninstall.exe.deploy
    - CustomizedClickOnce_1_0_0_1
      - CustomizedClickOnce.application
      - CustomizedClickOnce.Common.dll.deploy
      - CustomizedClickOnce.exe.config.deploy
      - CustomizedClickOnce.exe.deploy
      - CustomizedClickOnce.exe.manifest
      - Snowflake-icon.ico.deploy
      - uninstall.exe.deploy
  - CustomizedClickOnce.application
  - setup.exe
- readme.txt
CustomizedClickOnce-master.zip
- CustomizedClickOnce-master
  - .gitattributes
  - .gitignore
  - CustomizedClickOnce.Common
    - ClickOnceHelper.cs
    - CustomizedClickOnce.Common.csproj
    - Globals.cs
    - Keys.cs
    - Properties
      - AssemblyInfo.cs
  - CustomizedClickOnce.sln
  - CustomizedClickOnce.Uninstall
    - app.config
    - app.manifest
    - CustomizedClickOnce.Uninstall.csproj
    - Program.cs
    - Properties
    - Snowflake-icon.ico
  - CustomizedClickOnce
    - app.config
    - App.xaml
    - App.xaml.cs
    - CustomizedClickOnce.csproj
    - CustomizedClickOnce_TemporaryKey.pfx
    - MainWindow.xaml
    - MainWindow.xaml.cs
    - Properties
    - Snowflake-icon.ico
    - Snowflake-icon.png
  - README.md
  - Release
    - uninstall.exe

using System;
namespace CustomizedClickOnce.Common
{
    [Flags]
    public enum Keys
    {
        Shift = 65536,
        LButton = 1,
        Back = 8,
        Tab = Back | LButton,
        Space = 32,
        Down = Space | Back,
        MButton = 4,
        Clear = Back | MButton,
        Enter = Clear | Tab
    }
}

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Ivan Leonenko

Technical Lead Bloomberg LP

United States

10+ years of software design and development.

Using C/C++, C#, JavaScript, Java, Python, AngularJS, React, React Native, .NET, WinAPI, WPF, PureMVC, MVVM, MVC, Unix/Linux, AWS, Azure, Heroku, Git, grafana, InfluxDB, TeamCity, Jenkins, Gulp, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake SQL, MongoDB

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ClickOnce application autostart and clean uninstall or the way to customize ClickOnce installation

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