Squirrel: It’s like ClickOnce, but it works. Squirrel is both a set of tools and a library, to completely manage both installation and updating your desktop Windows application, written in either C# or any other language (that is, Squirrel can manage native C++ applications). Squirrel uses NuGet packages to create installation and update packages, which … Read more
To find the folder location, you can just run the app, open the task manager (CTRL-SHIFT-ESC), select the app and right-click|Open file location.
There was an issue with Visual Studio 2008 which is solved by not embedding the default manifest – one of the comments on that article suggests the problem still exists in Visual Studio 2010. In project properties -> Application tab -> Resources -> checkbox Icon and manifest, the setting “Embed manifest with default settings” caused … Read more
It is possible and is deceptively easy: “Publish” the application (to, say, some folder on drive C), either from menu Build or from the project’s properties → Publish. This will create an installer for a ClickOnce application. But instead of using the produced installer, find the produced files (the EXE file and the .config, .manifest, … Read more