Public Service Computing Blog
Just in case any other groups of people are spending hours trying to get this to work, here is a possible solution. Boring otherwise.
If you are trying to download and install a ClickOnce application off a website, where the server is, for example, an apache server, and it seems to be working but instead you get a webpage of XML, see this page, and others like it. Once you have the .application mapped to application/x-ms-application (I'm not sure if you actually need the other two) then CLEAR THE CACHE in Internet Explorer. Otherwise IE will just continue to use the old settings it received from the server, and will continue to not work.
So there we go. Hopefully that will save another 2 people 3 hours of trying some time.
If you are trying to download and install a ClickOnce application off a website, where the server is, for example, an apache server, and it seems to be working but instead you get a webpage of XML, see this page, and others like it. Once you have the .application mapped to application/x-ms-application (I'm not sure if you actually need the other two) then CLEAR THE CACHE in Internet Explorer. Otherwise IE will just continue to use the old settings it received from the server, and will continue to not work.
So there we go. Hopefully that will save another 2 people 3 hours of trying some time.
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:)TS'ing at the mo' pretty quiet!