Unable to deploy VB.NET app on client computer

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Normally I am able to publish and deploy applications from my computer onto a clients. However, when I try installing this specific app on the clients device, it fails. I see in the log it is trying to connect to something on my computer(laptop-anmtvvb0) under a deployment provider URL. I publishing straight onto a network location, not my local computer, how do I stop it from pointing to my computer?

SOURCES
	Deployment url			: file://tsl-files/IT%20Share/Projects/FACC%20Labels/Cutting%20Panels%20Label%20Maker.application
	Deployment Provider url		: http://laptop-anmtvvb0/Cutting%20Panels%20Label%20Maker/Cutting%20Panels%20Label%20Maker.application

ERROR SUMMARY
	Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
	* Activation of \\tsl-files\IT Share\Projects\FACC Labels\Cutting Panels Label Maker.application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
		+ Downloading http://laptop-anmtvvb0/Cutting Panels Label Maker/Cutting Panels Label Maker.application did not succeed.
		+ The remote name could not be resolved: 'laptop-anmtvvb0'

What I have tried:

The only difference is I have started creating projects in VS2022 but I just created a new test project and had a successful install.

Posted 15-Mar-23 5:45am

Cody O'Meara

Updated 15-Mar-23 10:10am

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Dave Kreskowiak 15-Mar-23 15:50pm

How did you create this deployment? Did you right-click the project and click "Publish"? What options did you pick?

Cody O'Meara 15-Mar-23 16:04pm

In VS, I went to "Build > Publish [app name]"
On the first screen in Publish Wizard, I "Browsed" to the network location that our other deployments are on. Normally at this point I would just click "Finish". But when I do go through, the "From a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM" option is selected and "The application will not check for updates" is also selected.

Dave Kreskowiak 15-Mar-23 16:09pm

ClickOnce... Yuk!

You said you "completed on the clients device"? What does that mean? Did you also Publish from that machine?

Cody O'Meara 15-Mar-23 16:14pm

I adjusted the question. The "completed" was referencing that the app is complete but failed to install on the clients machine. The published solution and client are on two different machines.

Graeme_Grant 15-Mar-23 16:19pm

Have a read of this article, it covers issues with failed installs: Silent ClickOnce Installer for Winform & WPF in C# & VB[^]

Cody O'Meara 15-Mar-23 16:20pm

Perfect, thank you! One thing I will also try tomorrow is deploying it from another workstation that has VS2022 installed and see if it publishes the same way. Thanks again!

Dave Kreskowiak 15-Mar-23 16:29pm

Open the the "Cutting Panels Label Maker.application" file from the published location in notepad. Search for "deploymentProvider". If the tag is there, the app will check for updates in the URL in "codebase" attribute. If it is not there, the app will NOT check for updates.

Cody O'Meara 16-Mar-23 10:36am

Removing the "deploymentProvider" snippet from the .application file wasn't working. Also in the publish Wizard having the do not update option was not enough when republishing. I went to Solution Properties > Publish > Updates and under "Update location", I cleared out the location to be blank and was able to successfully install. Thank you both for the help.

Dave Kreskowiak 16-Mar-23 12:18pm

No problem!

Dave Kreskowiak 15-Mar-23 16:27pm

OK, it seems you accidentally choose to "Check for updates". See the "Deployment Provider url:" in what you posted? That's the URL the app checks for updates at. You left the default value in there, which is your own machine. You can either re-publish and make sure checking for updates is turned off, or change the path to the same folder you published to. The thing is, the app will check for updates at the path every time the application is launched! This may not be desirable.

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Cody O'Meara · Accepted Answer · 2023-03-16T04:36:00

Solution 1

I went to Solution Properties > Publish > Updates and Under "Update location", I cleared out the location to be blank. Then after republishing, I was able to install on other devices.

Posted 16-Mar-23 4:36am

Cody O'Meara

Updated 16-Mar-23 6:25am

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