Application property page error, in Blend

[vsfeedback]

In Blend, the application's properties page gives an error on the "publish" tab.

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[jmarolf]

Here is what the error looks like in Blend

[Pilchie]

Seems like there is a setup authoring issue where either:

1. The clickonce components should be in Blend
2. We should hide the publish page in Blend

[DavidPx]

What kind of logging can I enable to try and figure out this error? The logs produced by starting VS with devenv.exe /Log don't yield any useful results.

[DavidPx]

I've found a workaround for this one.

This would apply to any sort of ClickOnce app where no matter what you get the dreaded "reinstall" message:

The publish components are not available. You need to reinstall Visual Studio to publish your application.

I did a nuke-from-orbit Visual Studio 2022 uninstall and full re-install and was still unable to use the Publish feature on my ClickOnce VSTO add-in.

However it does work from msbuild, this article details how to do so.

So in my case the command is:

msbuild .\MySolution.sln /target:publish /p:Configuration=Release /p:ApplicationVersion=1.0.1.0 /p:PublishDir="path/to/published"

I had to include ApplicationVersion in the parameters because even though I had the "auto-increment version" checkbox ticked the version number is not incremented upon publish. So you have to do that by hand.