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Chukkalove - 18 May 2006 12:15 GMT

Visual studio 2003 project c#
Setup project added afterwards.

Setup run on a clean VMWare virtual pc appears to do fine.

When I run my application from both desktop icon and in startup folder
straight after the initial install, the application runs.
When i open the application again later, firstly it reinstalls and after
that the application will run.

Something is screwy but I dont know how to find out what's gone wrong.
In my setup project, the desktop icons property point to primary output as
Id expect. Primary output I hope is my application executable.

Any ideas on tracking this down?

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Phil Wilson - 18 May 2006 15:13 GMT

Does your running application remove any files or registry entries? If so,
repair is normal - that's the way Windows Installer works.

I never use primary output btw. You don't have to "hope" that it's your
executable. You can just add the exe by browsing to it and adding it.

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> Visual studio 2003 project c#
> Setup project added afterwards.
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> Any ideas on tracking this down?

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Chukkalove - 18 May 2006 15:29 GMT

I know what's happening.

I copy then delete a file from a subdirectory of the install when my
application is run.
Windows installer sees this deletion and reinstalls it again.
I wasnt aware that the installer monitors the files in the directory, which
is a bit of a nuisance.
I guess there's some way to turn this off but I'm not sure how to do it at
the moment.

thanks all anyway, this had me stumped all morning

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Phil Wilson - 18 May 2006 18:49 GMT

Strictly speaking it doesn't monitor the files, but when you use a shortcut
that's when things get checked.

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>I know what's happening.
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> thanks all anyway, this had me stumped all morning

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