Project ClickOnce Advanced Deployment Webpage

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Great, but ... why?

When a user look a the boring VS 2008/2005 Click Once statup page, they see a version. But this is not the actual released version but the publication version.

Also, the page is not customizable in anyway, and it is overwriten after every publication.

So, that is why I created this little ASP.Net page, that is dynamicaly dertermining the version of the publication, the version of the application (entry assembly), and validating .NET pre-requisites based on the user agent.

Installation

Simple: copy the code below in a file named default.aspx (or the name of default asp.net document of the website/vdirectory).

The page will automatically resolve the application of resume help.

The code 

<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.IO" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Xml" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Diagnostics" %>
<%
    // Get the current applications
    string[] applications = Directory.GetFiles(Server.MapPath("./"), "*.application");
    if(applications.Length==0)
    {
        Response.Write("No application could be located.");
        Response.End();
    }
    string currentApplicationPath = applications[0];
 
    // Load the Application File
    XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
    doc.Load(currentApplicationPath);
 
    // Get the NamespaceManager
    XmlNamespaceManager mgr = new XmlNamespaceManager(doc.NameTable);
    mgr.AddNamespace("asmv2", "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2");
    mgr.AddNamespace("asmv1", "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1");
 
    // Get the Publication Version
    string publicationProduct = ((XmlElement)doc.SelectSingleNode("/asmv1:assembly/asmv1:description", mgr)).GetAttribute("asmv2:product");
    string publicationPublisher = ((XmlElement)doc.SelectSingleNode("/asmv1:assembly/asmv1:description", mgr)).GetAttribute("asmv2:publisher");
    string publicationVersion = ((XmlElement)doc.SelectSingleNode("/asmv1:assembly/asmv1:assemblyIdentity", mgr)).GetAttribute("version");
    string applicationCodeBase = ((XmlElement)doc.SelectSingleNode("/asmv1:assembly/asmv2:dependency/asmv2:dependentAssembly", mgr)).GetAttribute("codebase");
 
    // Get the most recent manifest
    XmlDocument manifest = new XmlDocument();
    manifest.Load(Server.MapPath(applicationCodeBase));
 
    XmlNamespaceManager mgrCodeBase = new XmlNamespaceManager(manifest.NameTable);
    mgr.AddNamespace("asmv2", "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2");
    mgr.AddNamespace("asmv1", "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1");
 
    // Get deployed application
    string startupApplication = ((XmlElement)manifest.SelectSingleNode("/asmv1:assembly/asmv2:entryPoint/asmv2:commandLine", mgr)).GetAttribute("file") + ".deploy";
    string currentApplicationSpec = Path.GetDirectoryName(currentApplicationPath) + "\\" + Path.GetDirectoryName(applicationCodeBase) + "\\" + startupApplication;
 
    // Get the File Version
    FileVersionInfo fvi = FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(currentApplicationSpec);    
    FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(currentApplicationSpec);
 
%>
<html>
    <head>
        <title><%=publicationProduct%> - <%=publicationPublisher %></title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1><%=publicationProduct%></h1>
        <h2><%=publicationPublisher %></h2>
 
        <h3>Current Version</h3>
        <table>
            <tr>
                <td>Application Version: </td>
                <td><b><%=fvi.FileVersion%></b></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Deployment Version: </td>
                <td><b><%=publicationVersion %></b></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Published on:</td>
                <td><b><%=fi.LastWriteTime %></b></td>
            </tr>
        </table>
        <br />
        <h3>Validating Pre-Requisites</h3>
        .NET Framework Version 2.0 : <b><%=Request.UserAgent.Contains(".NET CLR 2.0") %></b> [<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en">Install</a>]<br />
        .NET Framework Version 3.0 : <b><%=Request.UserAgent.Contains(".NET CLR 3.0")%></b> [<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10cc340b-f857-4a14-83f5-25634c3bf043&displaylang=en">Install</a>]<br />
        <br />
        <a href="<%=Path.GetFileName(applications[0]) %>">Launch</a> | <a href="setup.exe">Download</a>
    </body>
</html>
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