clickonce problems

[Olaf Baeyens]

None of our clickonce applications seems to want to install.
We tried it on a Windows 2000 server shared folder, and the clickonce log
file tells us that some file is missing while it is absolutely wrong, the
file is there and is has all rights available. Copying it locally solves the
trick.

Another problem is the uninstall, one of the clickonce seems to have been
installed and I find it back in the add/remove software list, but I cannot
uninstall it. Of course I do not have the original setup anymore of that
clickonce test program. So it is stuck there and a new one refuses to
install since it is already installed. :-(

We used the clickonce from the new VS 2005 Standard en the C# express, both
of them gives these types of problems.
So far we have not managed to create one single clickonce that actually
worked.

We use all Win2K machines for the tests with all the necesary updates
installed.
Have other people have similar problems?

Olaf

[Olaf Baeyens]

> None of our clickonce applications seems to want to install.

We tried it on a Windows 2000 server shared folder, and the clickonce log
file tells us that some file is missing while it is absolutely wrong, the
file is there and is has all rights available. Copying it locally solves the trick.

Some feed-back:
On XP it seems to work, but one of the problems I get on Win2K is this:
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ERROR SUMMARY
Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later
in the log.
* Activation of \\Databank02\Da taFolder_C\Olaf \test\WINDOW~1. APP resulted
in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
+ Shortcuts could not be removed. Try again later.
+ The directory is not empty.
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Another problem is telling me that WindowsApplicat ion1.applicatio n is not
found, while in reality it is clearly there and fully functional!

[Olaf Baeyens]

> + Shortcuts could not be removed. Try again later.

+ The directory is not empty.
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Ok I managed to destroy it on a Windows XP too.

Do this:
1. Create a Small C# program.
2. Publish it to a shared folder.
3. Go to another computer and install.
4. Change the program and publish again.
5. Go to the installed computer and call the program, see it updates without
problems.
6. NOW DELETE THE COMPLETE PUBLISHED INSTALL FOLDER (simulate a harddisk
crash)
7. Change the program and publish it again.
8. Go back to the installed computer and discover that you are in deep shit.
--> Install will fail.
--> Add/remove software will also fail, complains about a shortcut that
cannot be removed.

Now we are stuck. We cannot install, we cannot uninstall and no program to
run.

Any feed-back would be helpfull.