.NET WInforms ClickOnce - Error during install.

Hi Cipher,

This can happen due to one of the three reasons.

1. The client's computer's network connection is down.

2. The Web server, FTP server, or file share hosting the update is unavailable.

3. One or more of the files in the ClickOnce deployment was not found.

Regards,
Chinmay.

I am remoted into the computer that I'm having problems with.

Is it possible that there are intermittent connection issues? what happens when you try to run the installation again?

PLATFORM VERSION INFO
      Windows                   : 6.1.7601.65536 (Win32NT)
      Common Language Runtime       : 4.0.30319.18063
      System.Deployment.dll             : 4.0.30319.34280 built by: FX452RTMGDR
      clr.dll                   : 4.0.30319.18063 built by: FX45RTMGDR
      dfdll.dll                   : 4.0.30319.34280 built by: FX452RTMGDR
      dfshim.dll                   : 4.0.41209.0 (Main.041209-0000)

SOURCES
      Deployment url                  : file:///C:/Users/xxxxxxxx/Downloads/xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx(1).application
      Deployment Provider url            : https://xxxxxxxx.com/xxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx.application

ERROR SUMMARY
      Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
      * Activation of C:\Users\xxxxxxxx\Downloads\xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx(1).application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
            + Downloading https://xxxxxxxx.com/xxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx.application did not succeed.
            + The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel.

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION FAILURE SUMMARY
      No transaction error was detected.

WARNINGS
      There were no warnings during this operation.

OPERATION PROGRESS STATUS
      * [12/5/2018 9:03:13 PM] : Activation of C:\Users\xxxxxxxx\Downloads\xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx(1).application has started.

ERROR DETAILS
      Following errors were detected during this operation.
      * [12/5/2018 9:03:15 PM] System.Deployment.Application.DeploymentDownloadException (Unknown subtype)
            - Downloading https://xxxxxxxx.com/xxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx.application 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.DownloadDeploymentManifestDirect(SubscriptionStore subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options, ServerInformation& serverInformation)
                  at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.FollowDeploymentProviderUri(SubscriptionStore subStore, AssemblyManifest& deployment, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options)
                  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.Net.WebException
            - The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel.
            - Source: System
            - Stack trace:
                  at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
                  at System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadSingleFile(DownloadQueueItem next)

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION DETAILS
      No transaction information is available.

Looks like this is the issue.

            + Downloading https://xxxx.com/xxxxx/xxxxxxx?.application did not succeed.
            + The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel.

In the similar question, earlier I raised this : What is this URL? Is it internal? Is it external? There are other things at play here - maybe a load balanced cluster is misbehaving? This does not really look like a deployment/ClickOnce issue to me. It could be very well Network/Infrastructure issue.

I think it is network.  The URL is external.  https://www.xxxxx.com/xxxxx/publish.htm.

I can access it externally.  

I downloaded and ran the exe two computers in the network and once computer outside of the network.  

It worked on the computer outside of the network and one computer in the network.

I submitted a ticket to IT to see what they say.

Great. Finally some progress.

Chinmay,

Have a question.  So, I recreated the install.  The setup.exe downloads.  I run it.  I get to the crystal reports and I get the error there.  This is what I noticed.  Says it can't download from

http://xxxxxx.com/downloads/CrystalReports_105\CRRedist2008_x64.msi

BUT the problem is that it is downloading from (and I set the prerequisites to this path also)

https://xxxxx.com/prodname/CrystalReports_105\CRRedist2008_x64.msi

How can I get prerequisite to download from correct location?

This xxx part... are they two different URLs? or the same? This MSIs, can download stuff on demand as well. Could you please confirm that it is not trying to download from some other component i.e. some other dependency is triggering this download?

The first issue is that the prerequisite is using

http

when it should be using

https

the xxxxx.com is correct

The next issue is after xxxx.com it points to

download

when it should point to

prodname

In the prerequisite i selected "download from specific location" and typed it in as when i selected "download from same location as my application" it was not pointing there.

Can't figure out where it is getting that path from

Cipher... I am asking this question from the very beginning, please answer this correctly, this will help us get closer to the solution.

This URL... is of Crystal Report Server? or some other server?

http://xxxxxx.com/downloads/CrystalReports_105\CRRedist2008_x64.msi

And this URL, is of your internal server?

https://xxxxx.com/prodname/CrystalReports_105\CRRedist2008_x64.msi

Or both these URLs are your internal URLs?

Regards,
Chinmay.

It is not the Crystal Reports Server.  It is the server where I am pushing the application to.

As an example:

http://myserver/downloads/CrystalReports_105/CRRedist2008_x54.msi

instead of

https://myserver/prodname/CrystalReports_105/CRRedist2008_x54.msi

The setup.exe is located at

https://mserver/prodname/setup.exe

If I go to

https://myserver/prodname/CrystalReports_105/CRRedist2008_x54.msi

The msi file will download.

I just don't know why it is NOT pointing to that location to download and it is choosing another

They are pointing to the same internal URL.  The download directory does not exist.  The prodname directory does.

Why is it pointing to http and not https?

Ugh.

setup.exe /URL=http://< Production  URL>/

How do I do this?

I went to build events and put it there but it fails during build.

I think it is how you should run the setup.

But how do I do that?  I try adding it to build events but get errors.  I am searching on how to do that.

Thanks