C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\publish.htm

This is the page that you should launch and it gives an option to run the
app(if you stick to the default publish properties). If there is a version
number, it should put all the exes in the folder followed by the version
number. You can also launch the exe from that folder.  By default, the
version number gets incremented everytime.

Hi Mark,

Based on my understanding, you copy a WinForms application project to a
machine(let's call it A) from another machine(let's call it B) and publish
this application via ClickOnce on the machine A. The problem is that if the
publish location is a URL,e.g http://localhost/test, the published folder,
i.e. c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test is empty. If I'm off base, please feel free to
let me know.

I performed a test according to your description, but didn't reproduce the
problem.

I create a WinForms application project on a machine B and then copy the
project to a machine A. Then I open the project with VS05 on the machine A
and publish it via ClickOnce. The publish location is a URL:
http://localhost/MyTest.

After the publish finishes, the published folder c:\inetpub\wwwroot\MyTest
contains the published files such as publish.htm, setup.exe, deployment
manifest   and application manifest.

Could you tell me how you publish the application after you copy it from
another machine?

Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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