Understanding the Structure of a ClickOnce Deployment

The publish process, whatever target you select, generates a subfolder containing the following elements:

Image A bootstrapper file named Setup.exe, which launches the installation.

Image The application manifest, which contains information on how the application has to be run in the ClickOnce context. The application manifest is a file with an .application extension, and the .NET Framework also allows you to launch the installation by double-clicking this file.

The Publish.htm file (only if the application ...

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