Setup has detected that the file "" has changed since it was initially published

Question

I have developed a setup application for my project, wherein prerequisite software will be downloaded from the vendor's website. Doing this I got a crystal reports error when I try to install that application, saying Setup has detected that the file "" has changed since it was initially published.

Targeted framework of my application: .NET Framework 3.5 and developed in Visual Studio 2010

Answer 1

Definately a problem with the CRE. See the steps below:

1. In the following folder, you will find a product.xml file. \Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\Crystal Reports 4.0\

2. Open the product.xml file in Notepad (or any text editor) and under the section, you will find 2 URLs that point to the 2 deployment packages. Copy each URL into your web browser and manually download the packages.

3. Once the packages are downloaded, copy them to the same folder as the product.xml file (see #1 above).