Have you ever found yourself in a situation where after installing some particularly appealing application, a new video driver which promises astonishing effects with your new PC game, and after a reboot the system simply refuses to start? Or maybe you enter your credentials as you already did probably a million times, and you then end up watching a box which tells “Applying computer settings” but this lasts forever? Being quite curious towards technology and technical gadgets (not necessarily meaning Vista gadgets đ), and due to may job where I have to often install and test on my machine sample application I get from customers, unfortunately I found myself in this situation more than once and luckily in those occasions I’ve been saved by the by System Restore feature available in Windows XP. When a while ago I decided to switch on Windows 2003 as my primary working machine, and I then needed to restore the system to a earlier point, I discovered that System Restore is not available in our server platform… but I didn’t want to give up that “parachute” which saved me so many times (but not in that occasion… that is a lesson I learnt in…
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I’ve been tagged :-)
So… this seems to be the game of this New Year (not really sure when it started, though)… Doug tagged me, so I’m now supposed to tell you 5 things you don’t know about me… here we are: I come from a completely different background: I studied Organ and Composition at the conservatory of Parma; do you know the “Ham of Parma“, or the “Parmigiano Reggiano” cheese, the “Parmalat” (sadly known for a huge financial disaster 3-4 years ago, as the “Italian Enron”) or Giuseppe Verdi? Well… I come from that land (an by the way, the native house and village of Verdi is just 5 minutes from the house where I grown up and lived for about 28 years… maybe that is what influenced my choice). Speaking of my favorite music, I’m an ancient guy (meaning I most like the Renaissance, Baroque and Classic eras, from W.A.Mozart backward), but of course I also don’t dislike some melodic “modern” songs… for sure I don’t like Heavy Metal and Techno Music (the latter can be really called “music”? C’mon… that’s just noise!) Computers where one of my other passions (together with painting, photograph, reading, movies and studying foreign languages), so towards the…
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ClickOnce fails to download updated files while they are accessible from IE
An interesting problem I had a few weeks ago was about an application deployed with ClickOnce; the auto update failed with time out errors even though the updated files could be reached successfully via Internet Explorer. Also, it appeared to be possible for Administrators to successfully auto update the application. A network trace showed that ClickOnce tried to go out on the Internet to reach the server from where to download from; ClickOnce didn’t recognize the proxy settings for the user while Internet Explorer had no problems with that. After some digging into customer’s configuration we found that they were using an IE policy deployed via Active Directory called “NoProxy” where the hosts were separated with commas (â,â) instead of semicolon (â;â). The ClickOnce technology seems to require more stringent proxy setting formatting and did not recognize the commas as separators. CheersCarlo