Windows Installer MSI & Clickonce Deployment support

MSI (c) (88:E4) [10:56:51:444]: Note: 1: 2769 2: WEBCA_EvaluateURLsNoFail 3: 1 MSI (c) (88:E4) [10:56:51:444]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038 DEBUG: Error 2769: Custom Action WEBCA_EvaluateURLsNoFail did not close 1 MSIHANDLEs. The installer...

1) An Error occurred during writing to the disk. Please check that disk is not full - On Vista machine C:\Document and settings\<User>\Local settings\Apps this folder dint have Administrators under Security. Most probably User Profile issue...

SignTool Error: Signtool requires CAPICOM version 2.1.0.1 or higher. Please copy the latest version of CAPICOM.dll into the directory that contains SignTool.exe. Workaround ========== -Copy the DLL to the correct folder Which would...

Clickonce Deployment is by design Created to Deploy in Per-user Environment We could not change the Target path to Clickonce Application. By default Clickonce would only Point to Root Drive\%User Profile%\Local\Apps -Generally through Soft grid or Citrix...

Windows installer or MSI project had inbuilt .lnk shortcut feature available. We could also use Shell Shortcut ClickOnce could create shortcut in Startup Menu. However Creating Desktop Shortcut is not available feature in ClickOnce Please use...

After running the publish wizard and running the setup.exe, a message box is shown saying that the "Application cannot be started. Contact the application vendor". ERROR DETAILS Following errors were detected during this operation. * [13/08/2008 11:07...

ClickOnce Application is not advanced like MSI. If you have COM references that needs to be register on Client to run the application correctly we have to create Bootstrap manifest generator For any Additional Data or required of third party application...

ClickOnce deployment enables you to publish application. Visual Studio provides full support for publishing and updating applications deployed with ClickOnce technology. ClickOnce application stores assembly information in Application manifest and application...

<Error Log> Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log. * Activation of C:\Documents and Settings\<Username>\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\PEB6XSQC\*.application resulted in...

<Error Log> "Error occurred attempting to extract setup configuration file" <Workaround> The root cause of the failure is unknown. But Some web related application stops Clickonce application Download correctly Some Known Issues...

It Gives prompt with Unknown File type This Could be the issue with Local MIME types or permission on Internet Explorer 1)For Fixing MIME, Please install related .Net Framework version on the machine and repair in case its already installed 2)For permission...

Clickonce Log ============= Following errors were detected during this operation. * [9/27/2008 4:11:03 PM] System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException (HashValidation) - File, <Filename>, has a different computed hash than specified...

Activation of http://Contoso/SmartClientLaunch/Project/ProjectEditor.application? resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected: + Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)) * That means the ClickOnce deployment...

Workaround ========== If you have "APPTYPE" In the Registry Key it would Give Error If you remove that value from Registry location the issue would be fixed HKCU\Software\Classes\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Deployment\SideBySide...

MSI Log ================= Action 15:16:33: FindRelatedProducts. Searching for related applications Action start 15:16:33: FindRelatedProducts. FindRelatedProducts: Found application: {7F0093FD-CC7D-4464-98FE-CD0EFDF55D97} MSI (c) (80:DC) [15:16...

If ClickOnce Store gets Corrupted we get Error of "Value doesn't Fall within the Expected Range" Workaround Remove Package Metadata registry Keys *HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-2146773085-903363285-719344707-241793_Classes(Sid Would be machine specific)\Software...

WiX Installer consists of Actions that require elevation.The CustomActions are not designed to run under SystemContext. WiX does not generate a bootrapper setup.exe that can be used with an embedded manifest to say RequestedExecutionLevel = "RequireAdministrator...

Windows vista wont Allow ATL control on the machine. We have Data Execution Prevention to stop Executing ATL control on Vista. Workaround Add This Post Build Event call "$(DevEnvDir)..\tools\vsvars32.bat" editbin.exe /NXCOMPAT:NO $(TargetPath) However...

Patch on that product which was installed through XCOPY and it was installing in 39 second. migrate to MSI and When they install the Patch on MSI.Patch takes 5 to 10 min during installation this is not acceptable. Workaround to this issue is Elimination...

A workaround to this problem is to go to the publish properties and then on the publish tab, select Application files and set the SEWOP_1_1_6_5/SEWOP.XmlSerializers.dll to exclude. Please add this to SGen Task <SGen BuildAssemblyName="$(TargetFileName...

If you create custom action through Visual studio 2005 which targets x64, You would see the Error During Build " Entry point 'xxxxxx' not found in module 'xxxxxx' for custom action 'Primary Output from xxxx'" If you are using VS 2008 It will build the...

The Windows platform has never had an integrated software-installation system. Instead, software developers have been responsible for creating their own installation routines or Scripts To copying data (Simple File Copy) To add registry Entries To...