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Brian Green
Brian Green

Reputation: 567

Why does a .net app launch a "preparing to install" dialog when clicking the shortcut?

We have a suite of .Net applications that we built installers for with WiX. All of them create shortcuts to the desktop and a few of them have custom icons for the desktop shortcut. When launching the app from the shortcut for the first time the apps with the custom icons launch a "Preparing to install" dialog box before running. I'm thinking this is caused by the custom icon. But I can't pinpoint where the error is coming from. Has anyone else run into this error before?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 182

Answers (1)

Christopher Painter
Christopher Painter

Reputation: 55581

This is a feature of Windows Installer called "Resiliency". You have an advertised shortcut that points to the keyfile of a component that belongs to a feature. There are other components in that features and they have keyfiles also. Windows Installer is doing a health check when you click on the shortcut and it's deciding there is a problem.

You'll need to look at Event Viewer to get the Component ID triggering the repair and then figure out what is wrong with your installer.

A simple work around would be to not use advertised shortcuts.

Upvotes: 2

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