Excellent ! Thanks for the response. I'll let you know how it goes.
Eric.
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Marek Habersack [via Mono for Android] <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/03/2012 20:05, mikehunt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > Good day,
> >
> > I'm trying to install Monodroid on Windows 8 Consumer preview. I had it
> > working no problems on Win 8 Dev preview, but now for some reason,
> whenever
> > I launch the ClickOnce installer, I can see the "Launching Application"
> > dialog, then nothing. Using ProcMon, I was able to find out where its
> log
> > file is, and here's the contents of it :
> >
> [snip]
> > Launching application manifest via dfshim/
> >
> >
> > Has anybody seen this before ? Is there another way to get the setup
> going ?
> ClickOnce service is broken on Windows 8 and since setup.exe is a
> ClickOnce bootstrapper, it makes our installer to
> appear broken. The last line from the log above means that ClickOnce
> attempts to start the actual installer, but the
> service it uses (dfshim) for some unknown reason fails to do so. You can
> still use the installer by finding the
> directory where CLickOnce put the downloaded application. Unfortunately
> it's not possible to tell where it is exactly,
> it changes from system to system. You need to find directory with
> WindowsInstaller.exe along with
> Xamarin.Web.Installer.dll - the two might be in several directories,
> choose the one which has lots of dlls and files.
> Run WindowsInstaller.exe from there.
> We are working on replacing the ClickOnce installer with a better
> solution, sorry for the trouble you're experiencing.
>
> best,
>
> marek
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eric.
> >
> >
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