Windows Installer MSI & Clickonce issues

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Visual studio2005 or 2008 could create Web Setup project. There are inbuilt custom action in web setup project and WEBCA_EvaluateURL is one of that. By default this custom action always return Error. DEBUG: Error 2769: Custom Action WEBCA_EvaluateURLsNoFail...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

In this scenario you may receive an error "This advertised application will not be installed because it might be unsafe. Contact your administrator to change the installation user interface option of the package to basic" during install/uninstall of a...

ClickOnce applications that are hosted online are restricted in the amount of space they can occupy by a quota that constrains the size of the ClickOnce cache. The cache size applies to the entire user's online applications; a single partially-trusted...

In this scenario we receive an XML page when we click on the “Install” button for the ClickOnce application. The web server hosting the ClickOnce application must have the .Net Framework 2.0 installed, and IIS should be configured to use it. The .Net...

I created a windows application and added a .net web service reference. Under partial trust application if we click on “Calculate Permissions” button after including webpermission, it prompts with a message box "This application requires full trust...

The Shared Add-In uses COM Shim, is obfuscated and is signed with Authenticode signature. I initially thought MSI advertisement would be the way to approach this. But, later investigations revealed that COM Add-Ins won't be triggered using Advertisement...

Based on the msi verbose log ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223300 ) I found the following root cause: INFO : [03/03/2009 16:38:00:434] [ApplyWebFolderProperties ]: Token is '/LM/W3SVC/1392067981/ROOT/'. INFO : [03/03/2009 16:38:00:434] [ApplyWebFolderProperties...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 ...