Hi every one....

I am having a problem in install the .exe fileusing C#.

I created a setup project forIE Toolbar applicationby VS2008 usingC#. When i click the mySetup.msi its installed successfully in the computer. i copied the mySetup.msi into another computer and try install it,its successfully installed.

My problem is:

I uploaded mySetup.msi & MySetup.exe into the application1 folder in my webserver. Then iclickMySetup.exe to install it, it produce the following pop error :

"This installation package could not be opened.Contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package"

can anyone have a idea what i have been doing wrong with my installer ? or i had mistake in my upload or download process?

thanks in advance.

rgds,
Nagarajan Govindarajan

If I understand what you're doing, then:

When you run that setup.exe from the web server it's not running on the web server - it's downloaded to a temp folder on your machine and it runs on your machine. How is that setup.exe supposed to know where that MSI file is? It has no idea that the MSI file is up on some web server somewhere.

The way people make these work is zip up the exe and the msi into one self-extracting executable with a WinZip type of tool, and that exe downloads, runs on your computer, extracts the setup.exe and the msi file into the same directory, runs setup.exe and then that runs your msi file.

However it's not clear to me why you have setup.exe. It can't possibly install any prerequisites, because they'd be up on the web site too and it won't know anything about downloading them to get them installed, so you probably just need a way to download your MSI file and install it.

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Phil Wilson

If I understand what you're doing, then:

When you run that setup.exe from the web server it's not running on the web server - it's downloaded to a temp folder on your machine and it runs on your machine. How is that setup.exe supposed to know where that MSI file is? It has no idea that the MSI file is up on some web server somewhere.

The way people make these work is zip up the exe and the msi into one self-extracting executable with a WinZip type of tool, and that exe downloads, runs on your computer, extracts the setup.exe and the msi file into the same directory, runs setup.exe and then that runs your msi file.

However it's not clear to me why you have setup.exe. It can't possibly install any prerequisites, because they'd be up on the web site too and it won't know anything about downloading them to get them installed, so you probably just need a way to download your MSI file and install it.

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Phil Wilson