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c#winformsclickonce
Hadeel Sima
Hadeel Sima

Reputation: 29

Where click once application installed

I am afraid after publishing the click once application, from the users to access the installation folder and to view the app.config file

many concerns I have now

  1. Is this possible on the client machine?
  2. If yes where is the location of the installation?
  3. Any idea how to secure the application for example from accessing app.config?

Any help is highly appreciated

Upvotes: 2

Views: 63

Answers (1)

Thomas Weller
Thomas Weller

Reputation: 59259

  1. Yes, according to security rule #3: "If a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it's not your computer anymore." - it's his computer, not yours.

  2. Silverlight applications e.g. go into %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Silverlight\OutOfBrowser\ plus a more or less random name including the URL. Quite unlikely to be found by ordinary users, but not secure from hackers.

  3. You can't. The file is read by the .NET framework itself. Otherwise, see 1)

Upvotes: 3

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