After chatting with my installer expert, he mentioned ClickOnce does have a ton of options to make this work properly. MSDN, what would .Net developers do without you. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s22azw1e(VS.80).aspx

So for my ToDo applications, one of the first task items was being able to change the font color.  After reading about this on my trusty WPF advisor blog, I learned you can do direct data bindings with Settings.  This is useful since I just have to create the property bind to it, and walk away.  The one thing I have to do is just save the properties. Here is the WPF for doing the background binding.  Took me a bit to see the error of my ways for binding a background.  I had <Button Background=“{Binding …” and this...

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Launched the ToDo project on CodePlex.  You can download the source in c#, VB and the executable. http://codeplex.com/todo/

Much like Scott Hanselman with Baby Smash, I used this as an excuse to play with WPF.  If you’re like me, chances are you have a ToDo.txt on your desktop.  It tends to get lost in the sea of windows I have open OR I just forget about it for a few days. So here is my solution.  It took about 5 hours to code from start to a stable, usable state.  A WPF application that “lives” on my desktop that lists all my todo’s.  The source code will be posted over at CodePlex shortly at http://codeplex.com/todo/ along with post an...