Client Profile Configuration Designer (Beta): Known Issues and Guidance
About the Client Profile Configuration Designer
The Client Profile Configuration Designer is a tool that allows developers to easily customize and build a deployment experience for their applications.
Known Issues
- Installs must be made under accounts with administrative privileges. While the installer will elevate permissions, compatibility issues remain.
- Install conditions relating to global assembly cache checks, windows installer checks, external checks, and registry-to-file checks will always be satisfied and should not be strictly depended on.
- There may be inconsistencies between the font sizes and text locations in the designer when compared to the actual installer.
- Published setups from Visual Studio (via the Publish wizard) may not work – build a Windows Installer Package instead.
Guidance
- Only the .NET 3.5 SP1 Client Profile and full .NET 3.5 Framework SP1 prerequisites are supported.
- Uninstalling ClickOnce applications using our “chained uninstall” feature is not supported.
- When adding a Windows Installer package with chained uninstall enabled, make sure to add exit code 1605 (product not installed) to the uninstall exit codes and mark it as Success. This ensures the chained uninstaller doesn’t fail when attempting to uninstall the Windows Installer package if it has already been manually removed by the user.
- Save the project before you build and publish.