MyClickOnce application accepts a query string parameter. This is fine when users click on the Launch link on the publish.htm to run the application file.

The problem arises when users click on the Install link on the publish.htm to run thesetup.exeand install prerequisites. After checking for/installingprerequisites, it callsmy application filedirectly with no query string parameters.

The -url command line parameter forsetup.exe onlyspecifies the url leading up to the name of my application file. It will notread what comes after the file name, which is where the query string parameters go.

I have also tried the Bootstrapper Manifest Generatortool. It onlyincludes a query string parameter as part of the setup.exe.And my application file still does not read the query string parameter.

What I would like to do is after installing prerequisites, my application file can read its query string parameter.


Can someone help me?

Sorry, but the setup.exe is never going to call the application with the query string parameters. That's not how it works.

Is there something you can use other than query string parameters? Could you include a file with some info in it that you can read instead, or something like that?

RobinS.
GoldMail.com

---

Ts'i mahnu uterna ot twan ot geifur hingts uto.

Is there a way to pass the query string parameter from setup.exe to my application file?

Not that I know of. About the only thing I can think of is to deploy a small application via ClickOnce that runs the ClickOnce installation of the application you actually want installed by triggering the application file with the query parameters that you want. I think that would work, although it's not as clean a solution as you might want.

RobinS.
GoldMail.com

---

Ts'i mahnu uterna ot twan ot geifur hingts uto.

Could you give me more details on your approach to solve this problem? The query string parameter is a user email that we use for license control of our product. This parameter isinsertedafter the publish.htm is generated.

So the user gets an e-mail with a link to your publish.htm page? Or he gets a link to the setup.exe that includes the license info? I'm not understanding where the data is getting passed.

RobinS.
GoldMail.com

---

Ts'i mahnu uterna ot twan ot geifur hingts uto.

This is our current implementation.
The user gets an email with a link to our publish.htm page. Inside this publish.htm page, there is a launch link to run the application file.At the end ofthis launch link, an email address is attached as a query string parameter so that the application file can read. But when the user clicks on the install link on the same publish.htm page to run setup.exe and the application file, the query string parameter attached at the end of the launch link is ignored. Is there a workaround to this issue?