ClickOnce installation folder
How ClickOnce applications are referenced from the Start menu, where .NET stores their local files, and how to trigger the ClickOnce uninstall.
During testing ClickOnce-Deployment i wondered that in my start-menu an “application reference” is created which has no link-reference to the application which is installed at the client.
Only references to the server which offers the application are listed. It seems there is some magic in the ClickOnce-client-engine of .NET-FW 2.0
After searching in my user-profile i found the application under ..\Local Settings\Apps\2.0\.. in a randomly named folder.
BTW: uninstalling is done by:
rundll32.exe dfshim.dll,ShArpMaintain .application, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=..., processorArchitecture=msil
this pops up an uninstall dialog ….