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CodeDJ
Iron Contributor
Apr 08, 2019

ClickOnce application downloads instead of directly opening the app

When opening a ClickOnce app, the *.application file gets saved to my Downloads folder instead of directly opening it. Additionally, since the file is downloaded, then opened from Downloads, it loses...
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Vidmo
Copper Contributor
May 25, 2019

i-am-kent 

 

Any updates on ClickOnce support?

Thanks.

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i-am-kent
Former Employee
May 31, 2019

Hi Vidmo, thanks for checking in! We have engineers actively working on getting ClickOnce support and this is high on my priorities. While I can't reveal the timeline for this, I will try to update this post when I have more information to share. Feel free to ping this thread again if you don't hear back from me!

 

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    Triogap
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 17, 2019
    This of course is not a trivial change to make. I'm glad to see this has a high priority. I was glad to see that the ClickOnce installer got a small visual update in the 1903 release of Windows 10. Hopefully insider Edge will soon support this feature. Great job everybody.

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