NAV 2009 with Clickonce

dave_c
dave_c Member Posts: 46
edited 2012-10-18 in NAV Three Tier
Has anyone tried using Clickonce with the NAV 2009 R2 RTC? I've only heard about it in relation to 2013, but Clickonce is a completely seperate technology to NAV and I'm not sure if there is anything to stop it being used with 2009. The article on setting up Clickonce with 2013 says
You can have side-by-side installations. You cannot have two MSI-based Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows clients on the same computer. A ClickOnce-deployed Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client does not interfere with other ClickOnce-deployed Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows clients. This makes it easy to run against different servers from the same computer. For example, you could have two Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client installations, one for a production server and one for a test server. This also means that you can run different versions of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client side-by-side, which is not possible with MSI.
This could be very useful for testing a customer database on a hotfixed copy of the client without having to hotfix whatever is installed for our internal systems.

I guess the manifest for 2013 could be tweaked to apply to 2009?

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  • ppavuk
    ppavuk Member Posts: 334
    Good idea! I also interested. Will do some research on this.
  • kine
    kine Member Posts: 12,562
    What I have heard, it is possible, but you need to fix many issues regarding different dlls, which must be released togetherwith NAV client.
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  • dave_c
    dave_c Member Posts: 46
    From what I understand the DLLs etc are all found when you run mage.exe, but I've not really played around with it yet. I will give it a go soon.
  • ChristianDamm_[MSFT]
    ChristianDamm_[MSFT] Member, Microsoft Employee Posts: 15
    You can try to deploy the NAV 2009 winclient with ClickOnce, and it may appear to work at first, but it doesn't really work.

    We fixed some bugs that made the winclient crash when running as a ClickOnce application. We also changed how it reads the ClientUserSettings.config and PersonalizationStore.xml files; without these changes two winclients would be sharing these files which prevents you from running side-by-side.

    So it's NAV 2013 only.
    Christian Heide Damm
    Developer @ Microsoft
  • ppavuk
    ppavuk Member Posts: 334
    Bad news. Does MS plan to release click-once for older versions in future? This would be extremely useful for partners.

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