Trying to deploy clickonce app to FTP site but getting FrontPage Server Extensions not installed Error

Question

I'm trying to deploy a WinForm app through clickonce using a ftp site on my dreamhost account. However, when I try to publish, I get the following error:

Failed to connect to 'ftp://ftp.mydomain.com/client' with the following error: Unable to create the Web site 'ftp://ftp.mydomain.com/client'. The components for communicating with FrontPage Server Extensions are not installed.

Here is my settings on the publish tab

Publishing Folder Location: ftp://ftp.mydomain.com/client

Installation Folder URL: http://ftp.mydomain.com/client

It seems that Visual Studio is not realizing I am publishing to a ftp site and not a site with FrontPage.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

Solution 1

Visual Studio only supports publishing to web servers that have Frontpage Extensions installed, regardless of whether connecting via FTP or HTTP. If your host doesn't support them, you will have to publish to a local folder and then upload its contents using an FTP client.

UPDATE: The FrontPage extension components need to be installed on the machine you are DEVELOPING on (Used to publish). The server shouldn't matter--it's simply FTP. On your development system, go to control panel > add/remove programs > and repair "Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component". Depending on the version you have, you may need to repair VS2010, etc. This will reinstall the FP components on YOUR machine, allowing you to publish via FTP.

Solution 2

Do you recently installed Xamarin extensions xamarin.visualstudioInstall.msi ? This is cause of stopped deployment component. Check this discusion: http://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/30406/bug-after-installing-xamarin

Removing 'Xamarin' from the uninstall/change a program fixed the issue for me. After that VS 2013 and VS 2015 RC1 deployments started to work again.

Solution 3

what is worth of acknowledgment is the fact that Visual Studio 2010 may report such error due to problems with lacking RAM or after several sleep or hibernation phases with VS turned on. I experienced this with a perfectly well configured server which I have used for ages and done hundreds of publishes, the error came all of a sudden and the only medicine was a VS restart (or sometimes the whole machine's restart). Best regards.

Comments

[casaout]

Good catch! I think it might be the same issue for me. I can't uninstall just the Xamarin extension for VS, but rather need to uninstall the full Xamarin suite, which is impractical for daily use...

[Jahmic]

Doesn't seem to be anything like that there anymore in 'add/remove programs' for Windows 10 / VS 2015