When you publish an application using VS 2005 Beta 1 for ClickOnce, the publish process goes just fine. However, attempts to deploy application by double-clicking the deployment manifest fail, by giving an error that talks about a missing provider information. This happens since VS picks up the Publisher automatically from the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Win... NT\CurrentVersion registry key's RegisteredOrganization string value. If this value is empty string, VS still goes ahead with the publishing ......
TechED 2004 India just concluded at Bangalore. We had almost 1000 attendees in the main TechED and 300-400 in the TechED Academia. With me being responsible for Microsoft India's biggest technical event, I was a little nervous before the event started. Afterall, we had product team members of VSTS, InfoPath, MOM coming down to participate in the event, and more importantly, we had the Corporate VP for Developer Division, Mr. S. Somasegar coming to this part of the world for the keynote! This is probably ......