NAant ClickOnce deployment script and minimum required version?

Question

Hi!

I have an application (developet in VS2005 .NET Framework 2.0) for which I have created a deployment script using NAant. It works like a charm except for one thing, I need to force the user to update the application once a new version is avaliable. I just don't seem to be able to achive this?! Below you can see the script:

I have noticed when I examine the Application.application that the update tag looks like this:

<update>
  <expiration maximumAge="0" unit="days" />
</update>

instead of

<update>
  <beforeApplicationStartup />
</update>

which is the case if I generate the ClickOnce-deployment from VisualStudio.

Also the deployment tag looks different. The Application.application file contains this:

<deployment install="true">

While the VS2005 generated file contains this:

<deployment install="true" minimumRequiredVersion="x.x.x.x" />

What do I need to change to make it work? (I have used the mage.exe supplied with VS2008, mage.exe for VS2005 somehow didn't work)

Thanks in advance!

 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="Application" default="publish">
	<!-- Set .NET Framework 2.0 to match the version of Application. -->
	<echo message="Setting current .NET Framework to version .NET 2.0." />
	<property name="nant.settings.currentframework" value="net-2.0" />	
	<target name="publish">

		<!-- Setting variables containing all directories necessary. -->

		<!-- TODO: SET ACTUAL BUILD DIRECTORY -->
		<property name="build.dir" value="C:\DATA\Dev\Application\Application\bin\Debug" />
		<property name="build.file" value="${build.dir}\Application.exe" />
		<!-- TODO: SET ACTUAL DEPLOYMENT DIRECTORY -->
		<property name="Deployment.dir" value="C:\DATA\Dev\ClickOnceDeployment" />
		<property name="publish.version" value="${script::get-file-version(build.file)}" />
		<!-- TODO: SET ACTUAL PUBLISH URL!	-->
		<property name="publish.url" value="C:\DATA\Dev\Click\publish" />
		<echo message="Publishing version ${publish.version} of Application" />

		<!-- Copy all the files to the deploy folder -->
		<echo message="Copying Application files from ${build.dir} to $${Deployment.dir}\${publish.version}." />

		<delete dir="${Deployment.dir}\${publish.version}" failonerror="false" />
		<mkdir dir="${Deployment.dir}\${publish.version}" />
		<copy todir="${Deployment.dir}\${publish.version}" overwrite="true" includeemptydirs="true" >
			<fileset basedir="${build.dir}">
				<includes name="**" />
			</fileset>
		</copy>

		<!-- Creating Application Manifest -->
		<echo message="Creating application manifest ${Deployment.dir}\${publish.version}\Application.exe.manifest." />
		<exec program="mage" commandline="-New Application -t ${Deployment.dir}\${publish.version}\Application.exe.manifest -fd ${build.dir} -Name Application -Version ${publish.version}" />
		<exec program="mage" commandline="-Sign ${Deployment.dir}\${publish.version}\Application.exe.manifest -CertFile Application.pfx -Password application_password" />

		<!-- Creating Deployment Manifest -->
		<echo message="Creating deployment manifest ${Deployment.dir}\${publish.version}\Application.exe.manifest." />		
		<exec program="mage" commandline='-New Deployment -t ${Deployment.dir}\Application.application -pu ${publish.url}\Application.application -Name Application -install true -appm ${Deployment.dir}\${publish.version}\Application.exe.manifest -Version ${publish.version}' />
		<exec program="mage" commandline="-Update ${Deployment.dir}\Application.application -MinVersion ${publish.version} -UseManifestForTrust true -Publisher MyCompany" />
		<exec program="mage" commandline="-Sign ${Deployment.dir}\Application.application -CertFile Application.pfx -Password application_password" />
	</target>


	<!-- *****************************************************************************************-->
	<!-- Script extracting the file version of a file which path and name is an in parameter to  -->
	<!-- this function.																			 -->
	<!-- *****************************************************************************************-->
	<script language="C#" prefix="script">
		<imports>
			<import namespace="System.Diagnostics" />
		</imports>
		<references>
			<include name="c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\system.dll" />
		</references>		
		<code>	
			<![CDATA[
			[Function("get-file-version")]
				public string GetFileVersion( string file ) 
				{
					System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo myFileVersionInfo = System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(file);
					return myFileVersionInfo.FileVersion;
				}
			 ]]>
		</code>
	</script>
</project>

Answer 1

Hi Sekarmaeu,

 

Thanks for your post.

I think this issue is more relevant to Clickonce and deployment. I'm going to move it.

Hope you can get more helpful information there.

 

Best Regards,

Ziwei Chen

 

 

 

Answer 2

 

This isn't something that can be changed using Mage. I am not familiar with NAant, but it's probably a wrapper around the mage tool provided by Microsoft.

RobinDotNet

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