How to deliver ClickOnce applications silently, with or without AppV
Recently I did a big detective job in the organization I work for. I We wanted to find all the applications used today that utilize the old .NET Clickonce deployment technology from Microsoft. For those who don’t know, Clickonce is a Windows-based appinstaller format that can be installed and run with minimal user interaction. See more information about them here . Locating all the ClickOnce applications is a pain since they are installed into a user profile when the app is started. So first I had to search through all our computers looking for content under the following folder structure: % localappdata %\Apps\2.0\<random folder>\<random app id>. <random folder> is constructed from the first 11 characters from the following user registry key: HKCU\Software\Classes\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Deployment\SideBySide\2.0\ComponentStore_RandomString More details about ClickOnce: ClickOnce can be delivered ...