September, 2009

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Windows Installer MSI & Clickonce issues

Why shouldn’t we create manual Shortcuts for apps which are deployed via ClickOnce?

Posted over 3 years ago

by Gauravb
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With the .NET Framework 3.5 Sp1 we have added a new feature to install shortcuts on the desktop to point to the app-ref. So the ClickOnce runtime (dfsvc.exe) knows about these shortcuts and it manages these through the lifecycle of deployment. If we...
Windows Installer MSI & Clickonce issues

Using MSM from Security update 971090 and 973673 as prerequisite to create MSI, minor update would not work

Posted over 3 years ago

by Gauravb
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MSI Log ============ MSI (s) (80:28) [12:21:51:453]: SELMGR: Removal of a component from a feature is not supported MSI (s) (80:28) [12:21:51:453]: SELMGR: ComponentId '{9BFFB8F8-F55F-10B2-C01F-C8B3B9A1E18E}' is registered to feature 'Policy...
Windows Installer MSI & Clickonce issues

Visual studio only allows Product Version Property format in form of ##.##.#### only. For forth field it would give Build error for setup Project

Posted over 3 years ago

by Gauravb
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Windows Installer Product Version Property only allows the format major.minor.build However general MSI build application would use the Four field Product version Considering major.minor.Build.Revision, the forth field however is insignificant...
Windows Installer MSI & Clickonce issues

MSI patch created using Patchwiz version 3.0 may fail on Windows Installer 4.5 or behave differently

Posted over 3 years ago

by Gauravb
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Recently we have figure out that when we try creating patch using latest version of Wise Installer Our Merge Module gets inserted in the patch even when the Base install already installed them We can confirm the same from Patch Log ======...
Windows Installer MSI & Clickonce issues

How to sign the BootStrapper when modifying the URL in the .application file when Manually Deploying a ClickOnce Application that Does Not Require Re-Signing and that Preserves Branding Information.

Posted over 3 years ago

by Gauravb
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Recently, worked on an issue where we encountered a situation where one of my customer is following the http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384246.aspx and depending on the BootStrapper for prerequisites. The above steps are good if we are...

Windows Installer MSI & Clickonce issues

September, 2009

Why shouldn’t we create manual Shortcuts for apps which are deployed via ClickOnce?

Using MSM from Security update 971090 and 973673 as prerequisite to create MSI, minor update would not work

Visual studio only allows Product Version Property format in form of ##.##.#### only. For forth field it would give Build error for setup Project

MSI patch created using Patchwiz version 3.0 may fail on Windows Installer 4.5 or behave differently

How to sign the BootStrapper when modifying the URL in the .application file when Manually Deploying a ClickOnce Application that Does Not Require Re-Signing and that Preserves Branding Information.