When a user tries to publish a ClickOnce application after changing the user account password, it would fail with one of below error messages: “Cannot publish because a project failed to build.” “An error occurred while signing: Key...

You may find the below error message while launching a ClickOnce application: “Reference in the manifest does not match the identity of the downloaded assembly MyApp.exe.” Log snippet: ERROR SUMMARY Below is a summary of the errors,...

You might observe that files are not being upgraded after applying a small update or a minor upgrade patch. The upgrade log may not show the exact cause of the issue. After investigation, I found some component rule violation in the upgrade package. ...

While publishing a ClickOnce application using Visual Studio 2010, it may fail with the following error message: Error 1 Cannot publish because a project failed to build. Error 2 An error occurred while signing: SignTool.exe not found. Build output...

While calling a OpenFileDialog ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.openfiledialog.aspx ) via Installer class as a Custom Action in the Visual Studio Setup project, it just hangs there. When we attach a debugger we receive...

Symptom Migrated a Setup project from VS2008 to VS2010 and set RemovePreviousVersion=True so as to effect a Major Upgrade. The MajorUpgrade finishes with files being removed from the application folder. Cause Component GUID's are changed when...

Team Build 2010 is being used to build the deployment manifest for a .Net 4.0 application to be deployed via ClickOnce. The application manifest is being built using mage.exe After the application and deployment manifests have been built successfully...

File associations created for ClickOnce applications are lost only on Win 7 X64 bit machines upon a programmatic update. Bug in ClickOnce due to Registry reflection disabled in Win 7. Programmatic updates with ClickOnce run under Wow64 on Win 7...

Using VS Setup project to deploy an application that uses COM component. The COM component is being registered by setting vsdraCOM. When the application is installed on the target machine the registry codebase for the COM component is pointing to the...

Checkboxes are used in Install UI to select what files need to be installed. This works fine when installing in full UI. During silent installation via the command line, the property cannot be set as arguments to msiexec. The property values are...

Issue: =============== Though the ClickOnce application is set to ToolsVersion="3.5" and the TargetFrameworkVersion is v.3.5 we see that when building with TFS 2010 the manifest includes the following dependency <dependency> <dependentAssembly...

Installing data files (.mdb) into System Protected folders (Program Files, System32 etc..) on Windows Vista machines as Standard user. Upon uninstall the data files appear to be removed, however when a new version of the application is installed the...

MSI built using WiX Installer consists of Actions that require elevation. The CustomActions are not designed to run under SystemContext. The installation/uninstallation will have to be done using an Admin command prompt. The uninstallation using...

when you changed the build environment from Win32 to x64 and tried to build the setup project Its giving Error the Visual studio 2005 always complained the error message " Entry point ‘xxxxxx’ not found in module ‘xxxxxx’ for custom action ‘Primary...

Files are being installed into the Administrators Profile rather than to the Standard Users profile. This does not appear to be the default behavior for an Admin assisted installation as per documentation on http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/bb384154...

MSI packages built using Visual Studio Setup and Deployment project create the following registry key. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\<Product Guid>\WindowsInstaller . There is no official Microsoft...

Current feature limitations of Clickonce does not provide for security over internet by design. It does work over SSL with server certificates which provides a mechanism to let users know that the application is coming from a trusted publisher....

1. Create a new Setup and Deployment Project in Visual Studio. 2. Include the ocx files in the Project using the “File System Editor” as in http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4ddxk2ye(VS.80).aspx It’s better to have the files in system32...

Two ways to do this. 1) Create a Transform to make apply changes to the MSI as to skip the default launch condition. You may then author a Custom launch condition to only display a message and exit the installation. Open the complied MSI using...

When the user navigates between different codebases, he may encounter with a blank/hang web page that fails to render the application. The issue can be encountered in the following scenarios: 1. Navigate to URL1/xbap1 2. Navigate to URL2/xbap1 ...

Publish fails with Error "Cannot continue. The application is improperly formatted. Contact the application vendor for assistance." Consequently after the failure to publish, when the application is debugged from within the IDE there is an error ArgumentNullException...

When using msbuild to publish the ClickOnce application which uses XML serialization assemblies we notice that they are not published. Cause It is known issue with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and only with msbuild. If we publish normally using the...

The difference between the following two Security Settings in ClickOnce Application: a> Selecting “This is a full trust application” b> Selecting “This is a partial trust application” and choosing the all Permissions Basically we would like to know...

To work around this problem, run DCOMCNFG.exe and clear the check box for the Provide additional security for reference tracking option on the Default Properties tab. 1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative tools, and then click Component...

There are two methods to do it. Method 1: Create a registry file for registration of the DLL file using regasm.exe utility ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tzat5yw6(VS.71).aspx ) Ex: %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\RegAsm...