VS 2010 ClickOnce - Specify URL for Offline Installation? - visual-studio-2010

I'm using Visual Basic 2010 Express Edition on a Win7 machine. I want to install a program using ClickOnce so that it will be available offline (available in my Start Menu). I have set the Publishing Folder to a location on my hard drive. I set the install mode to "Application is available offline as well (launchable from Start Menu). When I select Publish Now, I get the message "Please specify and install URL."
Why will it not install to the Publishing Folder? How do I correct this?

The publishing file location is where you want to publish the application to.
The installation URL is where you want to install it from.
You might publish it to a folder on your C drive, then put it on a webserver. That's why those two are different.

VS 2019:
Click "Updates" and uncheck "The application should check for updates"
Since is an offline installation, it should not check for updates

It seems that the publish path must be a network path or a web URL and cannot be in the form I show above. I was able to deploy and make the application available offline by using the home network path to the installation folder of my laptop: \\Users\Tim\Documents\Temp\Installations\OCRLibrary\

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VS Code Connect to TFS Server for Ubuntu

I use VS Community as a Developer and have spun up my own TFS Server in the past. I have been using Ubuntu more frequently and decided to try out VS Code. I started up Code and installed the Visual Studio Team Services Extension which is what I thought would be what I needed. I've read/tried online that you first have to open up a Solution which then redirects you to sign in to the web portion of their TFS/Teams which is not where my code resides. I was also not able to find the equivalent of the Team Explorer in Windows and the Plug Icon that asks you for a connection.
So my question is, how do you connect to your TFS Server and get your Projects in VS Code for Ubuntu, if possible?
UPDATE: I have gotten closer trying the following but do not have a complete solution. These steps will at least get you closer to connecting to your server.
Run Java -Version to ensure you have at least Java8 if not, run sudo apt-get install default-jre
Next download https://github.com/Microsoft/team-explorer-everywhere/releases/download/v14.114.0/TEE-CLC-14.114.0.zip
Run the command at your download location /../extract TEE-CLC-14.114.0.zip
Run this command to accept the EULA /../TEE-CLC-14.114.0/tf eula
Run this command to connect to TFS (assuming yours is the same as default) /../TEE-CLC-14.114.0/tf workspaces -collection:http://[SERVER IP HERE]:8080/tfs/defaultcollection
Sign in using AD or your Login
Run this command so you do not have to supply creds export TF_AUTO_SAVE_CREDENTIALS=1
Open VS Code > File > Preferences > Settings
On the right side is the user settings add the following "tfvc.location": "/../TEE-CLC-14.114.0/tf" and Save
Restart Code and that's all I have thus far
Below is a short list of steps to get up-and-running with TFVC support:
Install the Team Services extension for Visual Studio Code.
Team Foundation Server requires your domain credentials.
Ensure you have a TF command line client installed (either TF.exe or
the TEE CLC).
Set the tfvc.location VS Code setting to the full path of your TF
command line client.
Open a folder containing a Local TFVC Workspace and sign in when
prompted.
Set the SCM Provider to TFVC.
So your next step is opening either the root folder or a sub-folder of the TFVC repository. Detailed step you can refer to the documentation below:
https://github.com/Microsoft/vsts-vscode/blob/master/TFVC_README.md#quick-start
Also, you could check the video below which shows you how to set up the TFVC support on Windows and demonstrates much of the functionality available for Team Foundation Version Control. The features shown in this video apply equally well to the TFVC support on macOS and Linux:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IzJ2UPGmoQ&feature=youtu.be

Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 installation failed

I have a problem with installation Visual Studio Professional 2015 Update 3. I don't know what cause the problem, but setup is failed every time in each setup configuration. Setup manager shows me following error and warning:
Microsoft Visual Studio Services Hub
The system cannot open the device or file specified
I really don't know how to solve this problem. Does anyone know what is wrong and how can I install this program?
Greetings
SOLUTION
I know what was the problem! I didn't check thoroughly the default location where Visual Studio wants to install. On my PC I have installed a 64-bit Windows 7. After many tries of installation I saw that installator chose wrong Program Files folder. It tries to install Visual Studio in Program Files (x86) (dedicated for 32-bit programs). I really don't know why VS installator chose a default folder for a 32-bit programs while my VS is a 64-bit version and also Windows is a 64-bit version.
I hope that this solution will help someone who has the same problem.
Most likely this is because of Windows Installer cannot access the %TEMP% folder (I had similar error once, but with MSSQL setup). So:
First of all check if you %TEMP% environment variable points to the
right location
Then check if the account which is running VS setup has privileges to
access TEMP folder. Better yet, make sure you run setup as
administrator
Finally make sure you have disabled all disk or folder encryption
features
Also just to be sure disable any antivirus software you have running
The error message “The system cannot open the device or file specified” often related to the specific folder is encrypted, you can have a look at this article and try the following methods:
Save the VS installer file to a folder that is not encrypted
Install the VS to a folder that is not encrypted
Turn off encryption on the %temp% folder
To check the encryption of the specific folder, you can right click the folder and select ‘Properties’— ‘General’ tab, click ‘Advanced’ button and confirm the checkbox of ‘Encrypt contents to secure data’ is checked or not.
You can click the ‘log file’ in the VS installer screen that you shared, and find the specific folders that these 2 components ‘Microsoft Visual Studio Services Hub’ and ‘Visual C++ IDE Common Package’ stores and check if those folders are encrypted or not.

Deploying to FTP/Web Deploy In Visual Studio 2015

I cannot figure out a way to publish a web project in Visual Studio 2015 CTP using web deploy or FTP. In the Publish wizard, there are only options for Azure, Import and File System. In Visual Studio 2013, there is a Custom option where you can specify the connection settings and choose between Web Deploy, Web Deploy Package, FTP and Filesystem.
I tried moving over the publish profile from my Visual Studio 2013 project by putting it in the Properties-->PublishProfiles folder, and then it behaved like Visual Studio 2013, but would not publish (failed to connect to remote host) with the same settings that publish fine in 2013.
Any ideas?
It sounds like Web Deploy 3.6 beta supports the new content models in ASP.NET 5 (ASP.NET vNext) and I guess that the VS 2015 Web-Deploy client doesn't support it yet. (28 April 2015)
This blog post gives some command-line options for using a publish profile. I'm in a new environment that isn't set up for web-deploy yet, so I haven't tried it myself. (I did a file-system publish to test against my local IIS.)
I also experienced the same issue. It seems that, at the time of writing, the FTP publish target isn’t available yet: I guess that’s most likely because the Web Development Tools are still in release candidate / preview phase, so the GUI still has some missing features.
Luckily enough the issue can be easily solved with the following workaround.
If you don't see the FTP option, choose File System instead and go ahead. When prompted for a Target Location, insert the FTP Server URL and go ahead.
The remaining steps won’t change, so you can complete the wizard that will be saved into a ProfileName.pubxml file.
Once done, open that file and apply the following changes:
Locate the <WebPublishMethod> element and change its value from FileSystem to FTP.
Locate the <UsePowerShell> element and entirely remove it.
Right after doing that, right-click to the project’s root node, select Publish and re-open your Publish Profile via the Publish Profile Wizard in edit mode: all the FTP options (Server, Site Path, Passive Mode, Username, Password) will now be available.

What's the minimum set of tools I need to open Windows Azure samples shipped by Microsoft?

I wanted to try open "Hello World" from here. I already had Visual Studio 2010 installed. I went here and downloaded WindowsAzureSDK-x86.exe and installed the SDK.
Yet when I double click the .sln in the sample Visual Studio opens the .csproj (the project with web role) just fine but complains it can't open the .ccproj file because its project type is not supported by this version of the application.
What else do I have to install so that I can open that .ccproj project file?
You need the Windows Azure SDK+tools. The easiest way to do this is to visit here and select "Get Tools and SDK." This will fire up the Web Platform Installer, which should do a much better job of setting up your environment.
A few more things: You'll need SQL Express (or SQL Server) installed as well. I "think" the Web Platform Installer will take care of that for you, but I'm not 100% sure. Also, you'll need to run Visual Studio as Administrator, to allow it to properly interact with the local Windows Azure simulator.
Turns out I needed to also install the thing called "VSCloudService.exe" on the same page. Once I installed it .ccproj files open just fine.

VS 2008 Express - clickOnce question

I have the VS Express 2008 where there is only ClickOnce deployment option. I need my app to be simple ran by clicking on the exe file without any installation.
I have found out that after deleting both manifests and icon /which is always in the output directory even though its embedd with "Do not copy" option/ it works well. Is it ok or is there any cleaner way how to do that? I mean, if the app is not being installed but only ran, do I still need external manifest files? I tried to embedd them but these still persist external (tried "Embed manifest with default setting" option or add my own and selected from list).
EDIT: In the Express, there is only ClickOnce.
Thanks
If you want to run it from the exe, ClickOnce isn't quite right. ClickOnce executes as a .application, and you should be able to just click the radio button (on the "Publish" tab) for "The application is available online only", which avoids any local ClickOnce install.
Otherwise, just build as Release and take the /bin/Release output; this is your standalone exe app. To get the right trust, a .NET exe can be executed from:
local drives
mapped network drives (f: etc) with the right .NET service pack
anywhere if "caspol" has been used to set a policy
I believe in Visual Studio Express, ClickOnce deployment is your only choice.

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