title: Publishing a WPF Application
body: <p>I’m new to WPF, so I apologise if this is an obvious question.</p>
  
  <p>I’m trying to publish a WPF application.  I’ve gone through the publish process and published it to my local host (http:/localhost/app).  Once it was published, it gave me the published URL: <a href="http://MyNetworkID/ProgramName/publish.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://MyNetworkID/ProgramName/publish.htm</a>.  There is a run icon here, but when I click it, it asks me how I want to open the WPF application.  I use Firefox as my default browser, and I get a choice of “Windows Presentation Foundation Host” or internet explorer.</p>
  
  <p>If I select WPF Host, I just get the same question again.  </p>
  
  <p>If I select IE then it tells me that the application cannot be downloaded.  Error message in the log file is: “An exception occurred while downloading the manifest”.  If I navigate to the IIS directory (inetpub\wwroot\app\application files) then I can find a manifest file under the relevant version.</p>
  
  <p>I’ve set-up the License and granted trusted permissions to the license holder (me), just in case it was that.  Am I doing something wrong?  </p>
  
  <p>EDIT:</p>
  
  <p>Below is an extract from the error log:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ERROR SUMMARY
  Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
  * An exception occurred while downloading the manifest. Following failure messages were detected:
      + Downloading file:///C:/Documents and Settings/username/Local Settings/Temp/Application Files/WpfAppName_1_1_0_0/WpfAppName.exe.manifest did not succeed.
  + Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temp\Application Files\WpfAppName_1_1_0_0\WpfAppName.exe.manifest'.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I checked, and there is no sub folder “Application Files” inside Temp.</p>