SQL Server re-installs when already installed

[Rich Leyshon]

I have a project which has been dormant for a year but was just fine when I last used it. Now, one year on, with nothing changed, when I publish and install, it insists on re-installing SQL Server Express even though it is already installed. No changes made to the bootstrapper, which used to work just fine .... And just to add to the fun, the previous Dotfuscator stored settings also fail to obfuscate the code. I could understand it if I'd been tinkering but this literally hasn't been touched since the last publish a year ago! Cheers, Rich

[Mycroft Holmes]

Oooh nasty So your app has not changed, now it comes down to your environment, you know all those lovely security and product updates courtesy of every vendor with software on your platform, one (or more) of them has probably changed something. I would think that rebuilding your install may make a difference. You may want to look at changing your references away from 'specific version'

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH