ClickOnce and IIS HTTP Compression

HOW TO Enable ClickOnce Compression on IIS

"ClickOnce supports using HTTP compression for the file downloads, a Web server technology that uses the GZIP algorithm to compress a data stream before sending it to the client. The client—in this case, ClickOnce—decompresses the stream before reading the files. This results in shorter download times for your ClickOnce deployments.

If you are using Internet Information Services (IIS), you can enable HTTP compression easily.

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I've started using ClickOnce and am pretty jazzed about it (it actually seems to work in a production enviorment... yeah!).

This post provides instructions on how to configure IIS to enable HTTP compression and how to set it up so .application, .manifest, .deploy, .dll, .exe, etc, files are configured for IIS HTTP compression.