Cake publisher

Publish ClickOnce apps from your Cake scripts the easy way.

The ClickTwice host for Cake is a standard Cake addin, exposing multiple ways of publishing your app.

Installation

First, install/include the addin by adding the #addin declaration as below.

#addin nuget:?package=Cake.ClickTwice

//or to use the latest development release
#addin nuget:?package=Cake.ClickTwice&prerelease

The NuGet prerelease packages are automatically built and deployed from the develop branch so they can be considered bleeding-edge while the non-prerelease packages will be much more stable.

Versioning is predominantly SemVer-compliant so you can set your version constraints if you're worried about changes.

Note

These packages include their dependent libraries (including RazorEngine and friends) at this time, as Cake is currently unable to correctly reference NuGet dependencies.

Usage

To publish your app, just use the PublishApp alias, as per below:

Task("Publish")
.Does(() =>
{
    PublishApp(yourProjectPathHere).To("./artifacts/publish/");
});

That's it! Now that is just a plain MSBuild build and publish, with no additional features. If you want to add handlers, just use WithHandler or use LogTo to add loggers:

Task("Publish")
.Does(() =>
{
    PublishApp(yourProjectPathHere)
        .WithHandler(new InstallPageHandler())
        .LogTo(new FileLogger())
        .To("./artifacts/publish/");
});

And there's even more options available from the ClickTwiceManager to explore. For example, the following works:

Task("Publish")
.Does(() =>
{
    PublishApp(yourProjectPathHere)
        .WithHandler(new InstallPageHandler())
        .LogTo(new FileLogger())
        .SetConfiguration("Debug")
        .ForceRebuild()
        .SetBuildPlatform(MSBuildPlatform.x64)
        .ThrowOnHandlerFailure()
        .WithVersion("0.9.2.1")
        .To("./artifacts/publish/");
});

Split form usage

If you already have customised MSBuild alias actions you use, no need to replace them! You can also use the ClickTwice property alias to build complex actions:

Task("Publish")
.Does(() => 
    var appInfo = new AppInfoHandler();
    ClickTwice.RunInputHandlers(projectPath, appInfo);
    MSBuild(projectPath, settings =>
        settings.SetPlatformTarget(PlatformTarget.MSIL)
            .WithTarget("Publish") //important!
            .SetConfiguration("Debug"));
    //build here
    ClickTwice.GenerateManifest(projectPath).Publish("./path/to/published/files");
    ClickTwice.RunOutputHandlers("./path/to/published/files", appInfo, new InstallPageHandler());
});

Note that this is not the recommended method and can be easy to get wrong. Further, reliably determining the "./path/to/published/files" in the above example may not always be trivial. It is usually a folder called "app.publish" in the build output directory. It is strongly recommended to use the PublishApp alias instead.