Anyone else been having weird experiences with mature ClickOnce programs?
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I would normally assume it's me, but now I have had weird things happen on three different PCs. PC1 - office desktop. A simple app uses a base price (which changes occasionally) to calculate pro rata charges for a portion of a year. The changeable full year price is stored as a setting. I noticed that the results it was giving didn't look right and realised it had re-installed itself and the setting containing the price had not been preserved. I opened it a few more times and each time, it re-installed. Then, for no obvious reason, this behaviour changed and it now just runs correctly and retains the cost stored in Settings. PC2 - laptop and a different ClickOnce application. I had used the program on Sunday night. On Tuesday, I needed it again and it wouldn't run as it couldn't find the installation files (as they would be on a USB). Try several other "own-rolled" apps and all of them do exactly the same thing - none would run without re-installing first. PC3 - home laptop. Needed to do some updates to the software mentioned in the paragraph above. Did so, worked fine, went to update the installed version on my PC. Ran into the "You can't install from this location as it is already installed from another location" issue so though I would just un-install and start afresh. Nope, this installed program (which happily ran on this machine) did not appear in my apps list, so I couldn't uninstall it. So had to create a folder that matched the previous installation folder and update it from there, which worked. Today I am back on PC2 and the software concerned suddenly DID work without a re-install but none of the other programs would. I was able to update it and all seems well. So, I appreciate there may be no limit to my own ability to cock it up but it seems like there's something else going on here as it has affected various apps on 3 PCs!
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Same here. It was an issue with a Microsoft update. KB5029331 Apps deployed via ClickOnce might prompt for installation when opened Our users, of course, think it is our problem to solve.
You seem to have linked back to your post!
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You seem to have linked back to your post!
Sigh. Thanks. I fixed it.
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I would normally assume it's me, but now I have had weird things happen on three different PCs. PC1 - office desktop. A simple app uses a base price (which changes occasionally) to calculate pro rata charges for a portion of a year. The changeable full year price is stored as a setting. I noticed that the results it was giving didn't look right and realised it had re-installed itself and the setting containing the price had not been preserved. I opened it a few more times and each time, it re-installed. Then, for no obvious reason, this behaviour changed and it now just runs correctly and retains the cost stored in Settings. PC2 - laptop and a different ClickOnce application. I had used the program on Sunday night. On Tuesday, I needed it again and it wouldn't run as it couldn't find the installation files (as they would be on a USB). Try several other "own-rolled" apps and all of them do exactly the same thing - none would run without re-installing first. PC3 - home laptop. Needed to do some updates to the software mentioned in the paragraph above. Did so, worked fine, went to update the installed version on my PC. Ran into the "You can't install from this location as it is already installed from another location" issue so though I would just un-install and start afresh. Nope, this installed program (which happily ran on this machine) did not appear in my apps list, so I couldn't uninstall it. So had to create a folder that matched the previous installation folder and update it from there, which worked. Today I am back on PC2 and the software concerned suddenly DID work without a re-install but none of the other programs would. I was able to update it and all seems well. So, I appreciate there may be no limit to my own ability to cock it up but it seems like there's something else going on here as it has affected various apps on 3 PCs!
Same here. It was an issue with a Microsoft update. KB5029331 Apps deployed via ClickOnce might prompt for installation when opened Our users, of course, think it is our problem to solve.
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I would normally assume it's me, but now I have had weird things happen on three different PCs. PC1 - office desktop. A simple app uses a base price (which changes occasionally) to calculate pro rata charges for a portion of a year. The changeable full year price is stored as a setting. I noticed that the results it was giving didn't look right and realised it had re-installed itself and the setting containing the price had not been preserved. I opened it a few more times and each time, it re-installed. Then, for no obvious reason, this behaviour changed and it now just runs correctly and retains the cost stored in Settings. PC2 - laptop and a different ClickOnce application. I had used the program on Sunday night. On Tuesday, I needed it again and it wouldn't run as it couldn't find the installation files (as they would be on a USB). Try several other "own-rolled" apps and all of them do exactly the same thing - none would run without re-installing first. PC3 - home laptop. Needed to do some updates to the software mentioned in the paragraph above. Did so, worked fine, went to update the installed version on my PC. Ran into the "You can't install from this location as it is already installed from another location" issue so though I would just un-install and start afresh. Nope, this installed program (which happily ran on this machine) did not appear in my apps list, so I couldn't uninstall it. So had to create a folder that matched the previous installation folder and update it from there, which worked. Today I am back on PC2 and the software concerned suddenly DID work without a re-install but none of the other programs would. I was able to update it and all seems well. So, I appreciate there may be no limit to my own ability to cock it up but it seems like there's something else going on here as it has affected various apps on 3 PCs!
This explains a couple of calls I got yesterday. That click-once hasn't been updated in years and suddenly it needs to be installed again? :confused: Easy enough, tell them to click 'Install' and move on. As a side note, I have a couple of click-once deployed apps where I need to change the download location. What a PITA! X|
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
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I would normally assume it's me, but now I have had weird things happen on three different PCs. PC1 - office desktop. A simple app uses a base price (which changes occasionally) to calculate pro rata charges for a portion of a year. The changeable full year price is stored as a setting. I noticed that the results it was giving didn't look right and realised it had re-installed itself and the setting containing the price had not been preserved. I opened it a few more times and each time, it re-installed. Then, for no obvious reason, this behaviour changed and it now just runs correctly and retains the cost stored in Settings. PC2 - laptop and a different ClickOnce application. I had used the program on Sunday night. On Tuesday, I needed it again and it wouldn't run as it couldn't find the installation files (as they would be on a USB). Try several other "own-rolled" apps and all of them do exactly the same thing - none would run without re-installing first. PC3 - home laptop. Needed to do some updates to the software mentioned in the paragraph above. Did so, worked fine, went to update the installed version on my PC. Ran into the "You can't install from this location as it is already installed from another location" issue so though I would just un-install and start afresh. Nope, this installed program (which happily ran on this machine) did not appear in my apps list, so I couldn't uninstall it. So had to create a folder that matched the previous installation folder and update it from there, which worked. Today I am back on PC2 and the software concerned suddenly DID work without a re-install but none of the other programs would. I was able to update it and all seems well. So, I appreciate there may be no limit to my own ability to cock it up but it seems like there's something else going on here as it has affected various apps on 3 PCs!
I'm half-convinced MS is pulling a Tesla ... the equivalent to shortening "battery life" with software updates. I won't bore you with my details but I believe it's all related to their "cloud" agenda.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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This explains a couple of calls I got yesterday. That click-once hasn't been updated in years and suddenly it needs to be installed again? :confused: Easy enough, tell them to click 'Install' and move on. As a side note, I have a couple of click-once deployed apps where I need to change the download location. What a PITA! X|
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
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I'm half-convinced MS is pulling a Tesla ... the equivalent to shortening "battery life" with software updates. I won't bore you with my details but I believe it's all related to their "cloud" agenda.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I