I have a Windows Forms application that I am using ClickOnce deployment for and everything publishes fine when I am attempting to publish in Windows XP. When I try the same publish feature in Windows 7, it hangs on the publish step.
I am using a UNC path (file share) to the server (Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS 7). Why might this happen?
I never receive an error message and the process cannot be cancelled. I have to force-close Visual Studio and restart my Windows 7 PC because Visual Studio has some of the files locked.
UPDATE:
I was able to set full-control permission on the folder on the destination server for my domain PC, and I was then able to publish once. Then, every subsequent deploy hanged. I did notice however that it always hangs when it’s trying to copy the Office Interop files. Why would this be?
UPDATE (2):
This is definitely related to the Office 2010 PIA files. Why would it not publish them? Again, this works flawlessly on Windows XP, but when I perform the deployment on Windows 7, the PIAs are not published.
It could be a UAC issue. Try running Visual Studio as an administrator when you do a publish.