Is clickonce possible with regular c++ executable
c++, code-signing, deployment
Solution
Between the "assembly identity" and setting the processor architecture to MSIL, it seems like you're telling it that the entry point is into a .NET assembly of some kind.
Unfortunately, from cursory searching it seems you cannot deploy an unmanaged/native application with clickonce. The entry point must be managed.
You can create a shim as described here.
Problem
I have a c++ console application which I would like to publish using clickonce. When I run the mageui.exe tool and import the executable and dependent files to make an application manifest, it won't let me set the app.exe as the entry point. I can set the entry point, but when I click off the line and go to save, it clears the dialog and complains that I do not have a valid entry point. If I save anyway, the entryPoint is empty on the resultant manifest. That makes clickonce fail because there is no valid entrypoint. I've tried manually creating an entry point as follows: ``` <entryPoint> <assemblyIdentity type='win32' name='My App' version='0.9.1.0' processorArchitecture='msil' language='en-US'/> <commandLine file="app.exe" parameters="run"/> </entryPoint> ``` That doesn't work either.