Re-signing ClickOnce Application and Deployment Manifests with MAGE

Posted By: Beth Massi | Apr 8th @ 8:12 AM | 30,589 Views | 3 Comments
In this interview I sit down again with Saurabh Bhatia, a Program Manager on the Office Client team, who is responsible for the ClickOnce publishing functionality in Visual Studio. We chat about trust issues and certificates and he sets me straight on how ClickOnce deployment and application manifests work. He then shows how to re-sign them outside of Visual Studio using a tool called Mage. This is really handy for folks that need to modify the files within a deployment package, like the application settings (app.config) file, but don't have Visual Studio installed.

Saurabh draws on the whiteboard in this one and since I'm a one (wo)man show I couldn't jump up and zoom in so I redrew it for you all here. 

Saurabh has also posted more details in an article he wrote here.

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-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community
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#Apr 9th @ 2:53 AM
Rhapsody
Rhapsody
In Metal We Trust
Very interesting video, especially the end about the certificate and the signing!

Keep up the good work!
#Apr 9th @ 5:14 AM
Flatliner
Flatliner
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Am I the only one that first read this as "Resigning Click-Once" (as in Retiring or Quitting the use of Click Once) instead of "Re-signing"?
#Apr 9th @ 3:00 PM
funkyonex
funkyonex
Beth Massi - Visual Studio Community
ROFL! I didn't even pay attention to that. Nice catch!  I changed the title. Smiley
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