How to publish your ClickOnce solution in Windows Vista

In this article I will guide you through the steps you need to do in order to publish your ClickOnce application on Windows Vista.

Please note that not all editions of Windows Vista has the Internet Information Services functionality. In order to use IIS you must have one of these editions of Windows Vista: Business, Enterprise or Ultimate. If you are planning to do any web development on your brand new Vista installation, make sure that you get one of these three.

In short you should perform these steps:

• Turn on the "IIS Metabase and IIs6 configuration compatibility" option on IIS.
• Run Visual Studio in elevated mode.

And now these steps with screen shots:

First go to the Control Panel and select Programs and Features.

From there, select "Turn Windows features on or off"

Expand the "Internet Information Services" node, and then the "Web Management Tools" and then the "IIS 6 Management Compatibility".

Check the "IIS Metabase and IIS 6 configuration compatibility" checkbox.

Click Ok.

And finally, run Visual Studio in elevated mode.

Now you are done, happy publilshing.