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Royhwa
#1 Posted : Thursday, June 29, 2006 8:38:12 PM(UTC)
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It appears like this.




How to reproduce this?
1. I am a programmer. According to http://ultidev.com/Produ...Guide.htm#SetupProject, I build my setup project named calweb.msi.
In this guide, CassiniExplorerMergeModule.msm is not asked to include. But if not, http://localhost:7756/GoToApplication.aspx?AppID=**** will not work. Beacause GoToApplication.aspx is in CassiniExplorerMergeModule.msm. If i set /AppPort="802" or some other port. GoToApplication.aspx is not needed any more. So there are two choices. If to use GoToApplication.aspx, CassiniExplorerMergeModule.msm must be included in setup project. Or set /AppPort in install operation.
Any way, after read this guide, i build calweb.msi at port 801 without CassiniExplorerMergeModule.msm.

2. Send this msi file to client whose computer is a cassini clean system. I mean there is no Cassini1ServerRC1.exe and any other setup projects which created in VS2003 with cassini. And there does not exist this file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\UltiDev\Cassini\CassiniMetabase.xml.
The client run calweb.msi.
If you want to test in the same computer with step 2, you have to uninstall Cassini1ServerRC1.exe and other cassini setup projects from control panel. And delete C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\UltiDev\Cassini\CassiniMetabase.xml.

3. In a cassini clean system, i run calweb.msi. Everything is OK.

4. Some code in my project changes. So a newer msi file released. Client uninstalls calweb.msi from control panel. But error comes!!!



Look at CassiniMetabase.xml. If there is only one <Application>, after uninstall from control panel, it is like this.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CassiningMetabase xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" />

I think that if there is no <Application> in this xml, CassiniMetabase.xml should be delete. In step 4, if i delete CassiniMetabase.xml, newer msi can be install.
And in step 2, the CassiniDevGuide.htm should declare clearly that CassiniExplorerMergeModule.msm must be included in setup project.
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#2 Posted : Friday, June 30, 2006 3:37:39 AM(UTC)
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Hi, Royhwa!

Thank you for using UltiDev Cassini Web Server. The merge module with the Cassini Explorer should be automatically added to the Detected Dependencies bin of your setup project by the Visual Studio after you added Cassini Server merge module, like on the picture below (this is the picture from the developer's guide):


Sometimes Visual Studio will have Detected Dependencies bin all wrong. In our experience this happens when you try to build a setup project of the product that is already installed on your box. For this reason we always follow these steps when building a setup project on development machines if we believe Detected Dependencies are messed up:
- Uninstall the product we are going to build.
- Right-click Detected Dependencies and select Refresh Dependencies - after this Detected Dependencies bin should get all its items back in order. In this case you should see the presence of Cassini Explorer merge module.
- Build the setup project.

We outlined the problem with Visual Studio messing up Detected Dependecies in the very last pargraph of the Developer's Guide.

Please let us know if this helped.
Best Regards,
UltiDev Team.
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Royhwa
#3 Posted : Friday, June 30, 2006 4:28:31 AM(UTC)
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In vs2003, the CassiniExplorerMergeModule.msm was not added automatically. I added it manually.

And Cassini1ServerRC1.exe seems to have some problem when dealing with empty xml file. I have to ask my clients to delete that xml file manually.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CassiningMetabase xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" />

My latest setup project includes CassiniExplorerMergeModule.msm, it work smartly.

Thanks ultidev.
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#4 Posted : Friday, June 30, 2006 6:44:59 AM(UTC)
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If Visual Studio failed to add the Cassini Explorer merge module automatically, then you did the right thing by adding it to your project manually. We are happy you have found a workaround.

All the best,
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