hi all,

I had a SCSF application as you know that some modules need to load dynamically at runtime, so they were not included into when publishing in VS2008.
I found some articles that present some ways how to add the modules(dll) to application and deployment manifest. link for ex here: http://rajsharma109.squarespace.com/rajs-net-blog/2006/10/12/deploying-a-cabscsf-application-with-clickonce.html
I followed up this link but when i run setup.exe, i got a error like this:

Cannot download the application. The application is missing required files. Contact application vendor for assistance.

and log's detail here:
PLATFORM VERSION INFO
Windows : 6.0.6000.0 (Win32NT)
Common Language Runtime : 2.0.50727.3074
System.Deployment.dll : 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000)
mscorwks.dll : 2.0.50727.3074 (QFE.050727-3000)
dfdll.dll : 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000)
dfshim.dll : 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000)

SOURCES
Deployment url: file:///D:/01-Projects/8-ClickOnce/New/Published/WindowsFormsApplication1.application

IDENTITIES
Deployment Identity: WindowsFormsApplication1.application, Version=1.0.0.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=25681d463c445980, processorArchitecture=msil

APPLICATION SUMMARY
* Installable application.

ERROR SUMMARY
Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
* Activation of D:\01-Projects\8-ClickOnce\New\Published\WindowsFormsApplication1.application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
+ Downloading file:///D:/01-Projects/8-ClickOnce/New/Published/Application%20Files/WindowsFormsApplication1_1_0_0_1/WindowsFormsApplication1.exe.manifest did not succeed.
+ Could not find a part of the path 'D:\01-Projects\8-ClickOnce\New\Published\Application%20Files\WindowsFormsApplication1_1_0_0_1\WindowsFormsApplication1.exe.manifest'.
+ Could not find a part of the path 'D:\01-Projects\8-ClickOnce\New\Published\Application%20Files\WindowsFormsApplication1_1_0_0_1\WindowsFormsApplication1.exe.manifest'.
+ Could not find a part of the path 'D:\01-Projects\8-ClickOnce\New\Published\Application%20Files\WindowsFormsApplication1_1_0_0_1\WindowsFormsApplication1.exe.manifest'.

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION FAILURE SUMMARY
No transaction error was detected.

WARNINGS
There were no warnings during this operation.

OPERATION PROGRESS STATUS
* [5/30/2009 8:40:29 PM] : Activation of D:\01-Projects\8-ClickOnce\New\Published\WindowsFormsApplication1.application has started.
* [5/30/2009 8:40:29 PM] : Processing of deployment manifest has successfully completed.
* [5/30/2009 8:40:29 PM] : Installation of the application has started.

ERROR DETAILS
Following errors were detected during this operation.
* [5/30/2009 8:40:29 PM] System.Deployment.Application.DeploymentDownloadException (Unknown subtype)
- Downloading file:///D:/01-Projects/8-ClickOnce/New/Published/Application%20Files/WindowsFormsApplication1_1_0_0_1/WindowsFormsApplication1.exe.manifest did not succeed.
- Source: System.Deployment
- Stack trace:
at System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadSingleFile(DownloadQueueItem next)
at System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadAllFiles()
at System.Deployment.Application.FileDownloader.Download(SubscriptionState subState)
at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadManifestAsRawFile(Uri& sourceUri, String targetPath, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options, ServerInformation& serverInformation)
at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadManifest(Uri& sourceUri, String targetPath, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options, ManifestType manifestType, ServerInformation& serverInformation)
at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadApplicationManifest(AssemblyManifest deploymentManifest, String targetDir, Uri deploymentUri, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options, Uri& appSourceUri, String& appManifestPath)
at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.DownloadApplication(SubscriptionState subState, ActivationDescription actDesc, Int64 transactionId, TempDirectory& downloadTemp)
at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.InstallApplication(SubscriptionState& subState, ActivationDescription actDesc)
at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.PerformDeploymentActivation(Uri activationUri, Boolean isShortcut, String textualSubId, String deploymentProviderUrlFromExtension, BrowserSettings browserSettings, String& errorPageUrl)
at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.ActivateDeploymentWorker(Object state)
--- Inner Exception ---
System.Net.WebException
- Could not find a part of the path 'D:\01-Projects\8-ClickOnce\New\Published\Application%20Files\WindowsFormsApplication1_1_0_0_1\WindowsFormsApplication1.exe.manifest'.
- Source: System
- Stack trace:
at System.Net.FileWebRequest.EndGetResponse(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
at System.Net.FileWebRequest.GetResponse()
at System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadSingleFile(DownloadQueueItem next)
--- Inner Exception ---
System.Net.WebException
- Could not find a part of the path 'D:\01-Projects\8-ClickOnce\New\Published\Application%20Files\WindowsFormsApplication1_1_0_0_1\WindowsFormsApplication1.exe.manifest'.
- Source: System
- Stack trace:
at System.Net.FileWebResponse..ctor(FileWebRequest request, Uri uri, FileAccess access, Boolean asyncHint)
at System.Net.FileWebRequest.GetResponseCallback(Object state)
--- Inner Exception ---
System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException
- Could not find a part of the path 'D:\01-Projects\8-ClickOnce\New\Published\Application%20Files\WindowsFormsApplication1_1_0_0_1\WindowsFormsApplication1.exe.manifest'.
- Source: mscorlib
- Stack trace:
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)
at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)
at System.Net.FileWebStream..ctor(FileWebRequest request, String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare sharing, Int32 length, Boolean async)
at System.Net.FileWebResponse..ctor(FileWebRequest request, Uri uri, FileAccess access, Boolean asyncHint)

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION DETAILS
No transaction information is available.

I found a lot of answers for this. But no any answer is able to help solve this error for me.

Please help me if you know any solution.

thanks.
DX

If you want to add them to the deployment and not have them be part of the project itself, you will have to add them to the deployment manually using MageUI or Mage after publishing. IIRC, you have to add them to the application manifest (myapp.exe.manifest) and then re-sign it.

Mage is the command-line version of MageUI.On my machine, they are in a \bin\ folder a couple of levels under C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\. I think they are included with Visual Studio.

RobinDotNet

I have used MageUIt.exe to add all files to my.exe.manifest and re-sign it ready. I got the error like said in first question.

Cannot download the application. The application is missing required files. Contact application vendor for assistance.

....

the detail of doing is followed up this link : http://rajsharma109.squarespace.com/rajs-net-blog/2006/10/12/deploying-a-cabscsf-application-with-clickonce.html


Thanks
DX

You're installing this from a shared drive or something? My guess would be the %20 is causing you problems. That is html for the space. The application files folder does, indeed have a space in it (don't get me started on how stupid that was, and it's a MSFT thing so you can't change it).

Do those %20 show up in the paths in the manifest itself? If so, can you change them to a space instead? Or if it's in your original installation location url, you need to take it out of there.

RobinDotNet

Thank you for your help, I have made a setup for deploying over CD disk(i mean that is not deployment over http protocol). I dont know why generated the path that contain %20 that html for the space as you said.
You can see it as below:
<dependency>
<dependentAssembly dependencyType="install" codebase="Application%20Files\WindowsFormsApplication1_1_0_0_0\WindowsFormsApplication1.exe.manifest" size="8852">
<assemblyIdentity name="WindowsFormsApplication1.exe" version="1.0.0.0" publicKeyToken="25681d463c445980" language="neutral" processorArchitecture="msil" type="win32" />
<hash>
<dsig:Transforms>
<dsig:Transform Algorithm="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:HashTransforms.Identity" />
</dsig:Transforms>
<dsig:DigestMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1" />
<dsig:DigestValue>IFEoRyNUmXX4t8wL1FIzewULYWc=</dsig:DigestValue>
</hash>
</dependentAssembly>
</dependency>

I have changed %20 to space but when running setup.exei got a error as below:

Following errors were detected during this operation.
* [6/9/2009 9:41:42 PM] System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException (ManifestParse)
- Exception reading manifest from file:///D:/01-Projects/8-ClickOnce/New/Published/WindowsFormsApplication1.application: the manifest may not be valid or the file could not be opened.
- Source: System.Deployment
- Stack trace:
at System.Deployment.Application.ManifestReader.FromDocument(String localPath, ManifestType manifestType, Uri sourceUri)
at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestDirectBypass(SubscriptionStore subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, SubscriptionState& subState, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options, ServerInformation& serverInformation)
at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestBypass(SubscriptionStore subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, SubscriptionState& subState, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options)
at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.PerformDeploymentActivation(Uri activationUri, Boolean isShortcut, String textualSubId, String deploymentProviderUrlFromExtension, BrowserSettings browserSettings, String& errorPageUrl)
at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.ActivateDeploymentWorker(Object state)
--- Inner Exception ---
System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException (SignatureValidation)
- Manifest XML signature is not valid.
- Source: System.Deployment
- Stack trace:
at System.Deployment.Application.Manifest.AssemblyManifest.ValidateSignature(Stream s)
at System.Deployment.Application.ManifestReader.FromDocument(String localPath, ManifestType manifestType, Uri sourceUri)
--- Inner Exception ---
System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException
- The digital signature of the object did not verify.

- Source: System.Deployment
- Stack trace:
at System.Deployment.Internal.CodeSigning.SignedCmiManifest.Verify(CmiManifestVerifyFlags verifyFlags)
at System.Deployment.Application.Manifest.AssemblyManifest.ValidateSignature(Stream s)

This error happend like my expectation because this file has been signed for no change.
Please help me if you can.

thanks
DX