ClickOnceMore

Those who have even the slightest of experience in building ClickOnce deployments, are aware of how difficult it can be to find the right tools for the purpose. While many opt for Mage and Visual Studio, these programs are actually capable of catering only the basic requirements. Moreover, they hardly provide any assistance in automating the build process. In order to resolve the issue, the publishing house of Greg Jackman has come up with a new tool, named ClickOnceMore 2.2, which helps users to make and deploy ClickOnce manifests in your project with the utmost efficiency.

ClickOnceMore comes with a pretty simple, yet attractive interface in silver and white. All the major controls are located on the top and left hand side of the screen. The controls are simple, hence making the operational aspect of the program fairly less complicated. The software, in short, delivers a high-end and efficient development environment, giving you the chance to ensure an effective deployment. All you need to do is, define all the settings in the ClickOnce manifests with the help of the Project Editor, and import files from the hard drive in your system- as simple as that. Not only this, once you are done with defining the ClickOnce projects, you can also merge it easily with Visual Studio by using a post build step to start the command line tool, with the ability of building the projects you defined in the editor itself. Thus, the product eventually ensures you an “one-click-solution” when it comes to deploying all your updated binaries in the Visual Studio. The software, unlike most of its competitors available today, goes way more softer on system resources.

Keeping in mind of its outstanding performance, its overall usability and accompanied by a reasonably placed price, ClickOnceMore 2.2 gets a score of four rating point on the scale of five.

If you're building ClickOnce deployments, then you've probably noticed the lack of available tools to help you. Visual Studio and Mage only cater for basic requirements and provide little support for automating the build process. ClickOnceMore plugs that gap in your development process, allowing you to easily create and deploy ClickOnce manifests as part of your development and build process.
ClickOnceMore provides a simple and intuitive development environment for your deployment. Use the Project Editor UI to define all of the settings for your ClickOnce manifests and to pull in files from anywhere in your system.
No more batch files to copy all of your output to one location and then manually running Mage to set up the deployment. Instead use the Project Editor to define inclusion rules that can, for example, include all the DLLs in one directory and all the xml files from another; or use an exclusion rule to take everything from one directory, except those pesky pdb files that Visual Studio creates.
Once you have defined your ClickOnceMore project it can easily be integrated with Visual Studio using a post build step to fire off the command line tool which can build the projects you defined in the project editor. Now you only have to click once in Visual Studio to get a new deployment with all of your up to date binaries in it.The command line tool integrates easily into you regular build process, so you always have an up to date deployment for you testers and QA staff to install.