As you may have gathered from, I’ve been playing around with ClickOnce a bit lately. The latest head-scratcher is how to get a ClickOnce deployed application to run at startup. It should be a no-brainer (just copy a shortcut in the startup folder, right? Introduction To Genomics 2nd Edition Pdf. ) but when you add Vista to the mix all hell breaks loose (and when I say “all hell breaks loose” I mean nothing happens at startup.) I finally sat down this weekend and put together a sample application and some documentation to support my findings.

Any help or feedback is greatly appreciated. Sony Cd Architect 5 2 Cracked there. The main goal is to determine a reliable, reusable way to add AutoStart functionality to any ClickOnce deployed application for any Windows operating system.

Again, piece of cake, right? Quick Overview An application shortcut is copied to the Start Menu Programs directory as part of the installation process for a ClickOnce application which is configured to be available offline 1. Pirate Poppers Complete R. For example, for me on Vista, the attached sample application’s shortcut is placed in the following location: C: Users Ben Griswold AppData Roaming Microsoft Windows Start Menu Programs Ben Griswold ClickOnceAutoStart.appref-ms. The shortcut location and file name are based on the Publisher name (Ben Griswold) and the Product name (ClickOnceAutoStart) as defined in the project’s Publishing Options 2. It is important to note that the shortcut’s location and file name are NOT based on the executing assembly’s Company and Product values 3, however, the Publishing Options and Assembly Information values are often identical (as is the case in the attached sample application.) Though Visual Studio provides a means to add an application shortcut to the products folder in the Start Menu Programs directory as well as the Desktop 4, there does not appear to be an out-of-the-box means to add a shortcut to Startup Folder. In other words, there is no configuration setting to enable the ClickOnce application to run at startup. ClickOnce AutoStart Solutions There are two sited ways to implement run at startup functionality.