The Microsoft .NET ClickOnce technology used by smart client applications implements a hashing algorithm that is not compliant with the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS). When FIPS is enabled, as it is on FDCC-configured desktops, and you attempt to publish a smart client application, the following error is returned: “Exception reading manifest from file manifestFileName.exe.iu.manifest: the manifest may not be valid or the file could not be opened.”
For more information about this issue, see the Microsoft Web site. [CR 533371]
