I am relatively new to VS2008 and only have the free Express version and have also run into this difficulty. I am used to earlier systems (e.g. VB6 Package and Deployment Wizard, or Wise Installer) that could install the application to a known folder path. I would willingly give this up for the supposed benefit of ClickOnce i.e. to "manage automatic updates", if only I could find out how make it do automatic updates over the Web.

If I tick the box to check for automatic updates, then it wants a "web page with Microsoft Front Page Extensions", but there is nowhere that I can find a step by step guide on how to create a web page to deliver automatic updates in this way. I don't even know if it is *possible* given that the company uses a Linux based Web server.

Can anyone point me in the right direction on this? Or if it is not possible, is there a straightforward third party install package that could work with VB2008 and put it in program files in the old way?

regards

Julian