How can I prevent ClickOnce deployment with VS 2010 Excel Add-In

Question

In the past I have developed Excel Add-Ins using VS 2010. These have all worked fine, but to get them installed I have had to create my own installation packages. No problem.

I now have a new PC with VS 2010 installed. So whenever I create a new Add-In the installation seems to automatically be handled by clickonce. I.e. when launching the Add-In via debug, it seems to install the tool using clickonce.

This would be fine normally, but the project I am working has multiple components that I want to be installed in a single process (which doesn't seem to work with clickonce).

My question is, does anyone know how to disable the clickonce stuff? And why are Add-Ins created using the new installation of VS different from my old one (I didn't install either)? I'm doing exactly the same thing when creating them, but they behave differently.

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

In the end I just decided to live with the ClickOnce stuff and built a separate installation package for the remainder of the projects.