I'm having a typical Microsoft find Waldo adventure and I am hoping some can help me because I seem to spending more time researching how to use Microsoft's wonder tools then developing with them.

I am building an app that I am using the line and shape controls from the Visual Basic Powerpack 1.1 library (VS 2008 .Net 3.5) . When I install using ClickOnce my app installs and then simply crashes, no error message helping me figure out the issue...just a crash. Does in on XP and Vista and every PC I have tried to install it on (except the development PC). What I have figured out is if I remove the Powerpack controls it installs fine. I have include it as a prerequisties, its referenced in my reference table, I have made Copy Local both TRUE and FALSE, and in the Applications Files section I have made that ever available setting. How do you install this thing???

I have spents hours searching the web for someone who has had this issue and have found a few "clues" but no solution...I joined this site hoping that someone may have experienced the same issue.

Thanks,
Vince

Hi Vscott,

I am moving this thread from Base "Visual Studio Setup and Installation" forum to the "ClickOnce and Setup & Deployment Projects" forum, since the issue is related to deployment. There are more deployment experts in the "ClickOnce and Setup & Deployment Projects" forum.

Thanks

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I don't understand what you mean by "I have made copy local both true and false", and what did you change in the Application Files section? Deploying the Powerpack Library should be done by checking the appropriate row in the Prerequisites dialog -- are you doing that? Deploying the dll's locally (i.e. setting copy to true) is probably not going to work; my guess is these need to be installed in the GAC, which they will be if you deploy them via the prerequisites.

If you ARE deploying them that way, how is the user installing the application? Is he clicking on the setup.exe or are you bypassing that and running the .application file directly? setup.exe installs the prerequisites and then installs the ClickOnce application by invoking the application file.

RobinDotNet

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