Holy ClickOnce Smoke! CodePlex now provides ClickOnce app hosting! Yes, you can now ClickOnce your CodePlex project on CodePlex servers!

CodePlex Weblog - ClickOnce Releases

“With today’s release, we are happy to announce that our #1 most requested feature, hosting ClickOnce applications directly from the CodePlex website, is now available for all projects! For those that are not familiar with ClickOnce, it is a .NET deployment technology that enables a user to install and run a Windows application by simply clicking a link from a web page. ClickOnce applications are also inherently self-updating, as they check for newer versions as they become available. ClickOnce applications are also “low-impact”, in other words, they do not need administrative rights to install, only install for the current user, and are isolated from other ClickOnce applications.

Since there is no direct way of publishing your ClickOnce application to CodePlex from within Visual Studio, we have attempted to make the process as simple as possible. The next few sections will walk you through the preparation and publishing, and ultimately creating a ClickOnce release on CodePlex.

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In a word, AWESOME!

This has been one of my biggest whines every time I corner someone on the CodePlex team. Now I’ll have to find something else to whine about (like maybe providing Build support…  LOL ;)

Anyway, I dig the CodePlex service and team. This thing just keeps getting better and better. If you’re doing .Net dev and need a place to store your code, host your discussions, track your issues, contain your doc’s and now host your ClickOnce apps, and like “free” then you HAVE to check out CodePlex (…I’m sure this is redundant as you’re all hosting your projects here already, right? ;)

Great work guys, thank you!