ClickOnce Deployment with auto-update from one drive

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ClickOnce Deployment with auto-update from one drive

Andi 111

Hi,

i want to publish my c# windows forms application with click once, but I’m running into a problem.

i want to use onedrive as auto-update webpage with a shared link, but this does not work.

as I didn’t found a free alternative to do so, I’m questioning this now.

i would also appreciate any other kind of similar clouds like google drive or Dropbox.

also I would use any kind of webpage service.

maybe someone has advice or a better solution.

(no local drive and no ftp available)

thanks ☺️

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Anonymous

Hi @Andi, Welcome to Microsoft Q&A.

no local drive

Do you mean you don't have storage locally? Or no local server?

As a free option, publishing locally and then uploading is the most convenient option for you.

If you use the auto-update page of the shared link, the address of Onedrive will not be recognized by ClickOnce.

Publish using From a CD, DVD, or USB drive. You can choose to manually update your forms application.

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Do not check Automatically check updates from the following location

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Publish the app and upload all files to your Onedrive.

Best Regards, Jiale

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Andi 111 Reputation points

2023-03-31T09:44:45.27+00:00

That is not the solution i would like to use.

My vision is that i have a published folder, and a auto-update function at onedrive. so that anyone who starts the application get a notification that there is a newer version.

Due to thats not really possible i tought about creating my own code inside my application that download a .txt file and reads it. In there is written a version and if that version is newer then the current one, it should show a information label and direct to the onedrive where the new version is located at or downloads all files and do it by it´s own.

But, now i have the trouble, that i can´t download a file trough a onedrive link, at least i didn´t found a propper solution.

If i at least could inform about that newer version i would highly recommand that.

So for the beginning i need to download a .txt file by a public onedrive link.

Do you have a idea or solution for this?

Regarsd

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