Clickonce installation fails to download

Question

I had made a Clickonce deployemnt to my application set the installation folder and publishing folder the same that is a network share and then it work perfect for my development machine Then when I went to on client machine opened the network share and I tried to install the application using that setup file i got tht message like below

And in details Iam getting the below message

LATFORM VERSION INFO
Windows             : 6.1.7601.65536 (Win32NT)
Common Language Runtime     : 4.0.30319.586
System.Deployment.dll       : 4.0.30319.1 (RTMRel.030319-0100)
clr.dll             : 4.0.30319.586 (RTMLDR.030319-5800)
dfdll.dll           : 4.0.30319.1 (RTMRel.030319-0100)
dfshim.dll          : 4.0.31106.0 (Main.031106-0000)

SOURCES
    Deployment url          : file://it-dept/Project/mycutorderlast/CutorderFresh.application
    Deployment Provider url     : http://it-dept/CutorderFresh/CutorderFresh.application

ERROR SUMMARY
    Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
    * Activation of \\it-dept\Project\mycutorderlast\CutorderFresh.application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
        + Downloading http://it-dept/CutorderFresh/CutorderFresh.application did not succeed.
        + The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION FAILURE SUMMARY
    No transaction error was detected.

WARNINGS
    There were no warnings during this operation.

OPERATION PROGRESS STATUS
    * [08/10/2013 14:03:25] : Activation of \\it-dept\Project\mycutorderlast\CutorderFresh.application has started.

ERROR DETAILS
    Following errors were detected during this operation.
    * [08/10/2013 14:03:30] System.Deployment.Application.DeploymentDownloadException (Unknown subtype)
        - Downloading http://it-dept/CutorderFresh/CutorderFresh.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 remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.
        - 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.

Can anyone suggest what was the issue As Iam using clickonce for the first time

Answer 1

Check values of 'Publish Location' or 'Installation URL' on Publish tab of properties. According to your current settings, you should have published files accessible by this path: http://it-dept/CutorderFresh/CutorderFresh.application and it looks like they're not available by this path.

Here you can read how to set proper 'Publish Location' and 'Installation URL' values

Answer 2

I had this same issue and it was driving me mad. I knew I had the proper permissions set up on the network's shared folder. I couldn't even install my application from my own machine via the network share. After searching long and hard for an answer I figured it out myself.

On the Publish tab of properties I only filled in the "Publishing Folder Location" with:

\servername\share\Application Folder

I left the "Installation Folder URL" section blank.

Somehow a field in the "Application Updates" section (via clicking "Updates" button on Publish tab) got filled in with a different value than what my network share was. Not sure if I did this myself or if it was set by default. I cleared out the "Update Location (if different than the publish location)" field and that fixed this issue for me. Here is a screen shot of where I changed the field:

I would post a screen shot of the form that was causing me trouble but for some reason I need 10 reputation points to post a picture.

Answer 3

I resolved my problem like yours.

I don't know that "Publishing Folder Location" of my application (below "formtest" App.) is different from "Installation Folder URL".

In fact, two folders of former WEB server for click once deployment were not different. So, I was confused after WEB server was changed.

1. Publishing Folder Location: \12.39.526.272\root\formtest\

2. Installation Folder URL: http://12.39.526.272:8080/formtest/

3. Application Updates section "Update Location (if different than the publish location)" field : http://12.39.526.272:8080/formtest/

I'm so sorry My native language is not English.

Answer 4

I had the same error, but resolved it a different way. Somehow I had accidentially unchecked something in the Options.

On the Publish tab, select "Options". Under Deployment, make sure "Use .deploy file extension" is checked. Once I checked that and republished, the error went away.