Question

I am using Visual Studio C# 2008 Express Edition. I have a Solution that has several projects, most of which are class libraries but two of which are executable projects (a GUI and a command-line interface).

Is there a good way to make a single ClickOnce installer that installs both of the executable projects?

If I make one of the projects be Referenced by the other project, I think it will let me do what I want, but that seems like a bad idea because it doesn t properly represent the real dependencies: neither executable project depends on the other, they just share a lot of code in the class libraries, and I d like them to be installed together.

Answer 1

The purpose of a ClickOnce installer is that it installs a single application. If you just want to have other stuff available, you could probably just add references, but it wouldn t allow the user to load it easily. Don t worry too much about "sharing DLLs" I think the click-once system will find duplicate references. In any case it doesn t matter, because ClickOnce manages and ensures that the DLLs are up to date when the program runs.

Answer 2

Hmm, maybe, you could just create a main splash page form, and have that launch forms in the two other projects. That way you only have a single application, but it does the two different things.

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