Walk-through / FAQ for non-IIS servers

Ok, I understand that there are some MS developers who have worked very hard on the click-once feature and by the looks of the video on Channel 9 are quite proud of it. I for one think its a great alternative to MSI and am very excited to use it. But I think it is quickly becoming clear that there is not enough information presented on this feature for it to be very useful in this beta release.

In another thread within this forum an MS developer admitted that having spaces in your assembly name can cause the manifest to not be properly signed. Because a desktop shortcut is supposed to have spaces in it, there are alot of assemblies that use spaces. This is a big hole that I wish was plugged already.

As for the application mime type, for those of us not running IIS (and lets face it, that's most of us) hopefully you have access to cpanel or the server directly because you are going to have to add the application type to it. This really needs to explained alot clearer. (Hint: In the wizard)

The following blurb from: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/ms165433(en-us,vs.80).aspx doesn't even begin to offer useful information.

"ClickOnce supports installing applications from any HTTP 1.1 Web server or file server. FTP protocol is not supported. You can use the ftp:// protocol to publish applications, but you must perform installations using the http://, https://, or file:// protocol."

Note to MS: If you want people to be able to use and take Click-Once seriously then stop writing everything as it pertains to IIS. If you have IIS then are probably not going to have the slew of problems that a FAQ or walk-through is going to cover.

I think I speak for alot of users on this forum when I sincerely ask for a Click-Once walkthrough for non-IIS servers.

I would like to hear any response from an MS employee on these issues.