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When attempting to install a published application we get error 404

The error occurs when the application attempts to start during the installation.

ERROR SUMMARY
Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
* Activation of http://www.medcommail.com/ANSI_X12.application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
+ Downloading http://www.medcommail.com/Application Files/ANSI_X12_1_0_0_10/ANSI_X12.exe.config.deploy did not succeed.
+ The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.

The file ANSI_X12.exe.config.deploy is NOT there. What is wrong in the deployment that is causing this !?

Visual Studio 2008 written in VB

Somebeach Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:43 PM

The problem was the ISP. The connection was timing out.

Marked As Answer bySomebeach Thursday, July 23, 2009 4:01 PM

Somebeach Thursday, July 23, 2009 4:01 PM

It can't find the file, that's why you're getting an error. Did the application publish successfully? Are you publishing with Visual Studio? If you publish, and then look in the app.publish file under the bin folder, is the file mentioned above there?

RobinS.
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RobinDotNet Wednesday, April 01, 2009 4:12 AM

RobinS, Thanks for responding.

I understand the reason for the error is the missing file. I guess my question is where is it? Why is it not there? The publishing seemed to be successfully accomplished. I used VS 2008 as mentioned initially. But when a user attempts to install the program from that deployment the above error is received. The error seems to happen when the installation is nearly complete and it attempts to start the program.

Somebeach Wednesday, April 01, 2009 2:14 PM

As a follow up to the original post, I have since attempted to publish to a CD and install/deploy from there, but I get the same problem. The publish is not creating the exe.config.deploy file and as a result I get this same error message. The publishing seems to work perfectly with no error message. I can only assume I am doing something improper in the publishing process, but I can can't figure out what it is.

Still looking for some help on this one! Thanks...

Somebeach Wednesday, April 01, 2009 8:11 PM

Under the options for the ClickOnce deployment, do you have the checkbox "use .deploy file extensions" checked?

RobinS.
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RobinDotNet Wednesday, April 01, 2009 9:36 PM

Yes it is checked...