I have a WPF app that creates some text files in its own install directory. However, even after the UAC prompt, windows vista and windows 7 users often times still get "file access failed" type errors. The solution is to find the executable in windows explorer and open up the compatibility tab under the file properties and check "run as administrator". This is obviously a terrible user experience but I'm not sure how to ensure the app can secure itself these permissions without that step being taken. I am not trying to bypass the UAC prompts.
In general, .Net wants you to put application generated files either into the user's home directory or the shared user folder. Have a look at this answer: When using a Settings.settings file in .NET, where is the config actually stored?
It talks about .Net config files but you can put other files there.
You can force your app to start with admin rights (UAC will show it's dialog box anyway) by embedding custom manifest (project properties -> build -> Manifest).
Manifest example (requestedExecutionLevel part is importaint):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<asmv1:assembly manifestVersion="1.0"
xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"
xmlns:asmv1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"
xmlns:asmv2="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<assemblyIdentity version="1.0.0.0" name="yourappname.app"/>
<trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2">
<security>
<requestedPrivileges xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
<requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" />
</requestedPrivileges>
</security>
</trustInfo>
<compatibility xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1">
<application>
<!-- A list of all Windows versions that this application is designed to work with. Windows will automatically select the most compatible environment.-->
<!-- If your application is designed to work with Windows 7, uncomment the following supportedOS node-->
<!--<supportedOS Id="{35138b9a-5d96-4fbd-8e2d-a2440225f93a}"/>-->
</application>
</compatibility>
</asmv1:assembly>
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For my Project at work i want to install a provisioning Package, that contains a xml configuration for Kiosk Mode (Assigned Access).
I used the exact code from the xml reference page and inserted my Apps, as an account i used a local account that i created for testing.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<AssignedAccessConfiguration
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AssignedAccess/2017/config"
xmlns:rs5="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AssignedAccess/201810/config"
>
<Profiles>
<Profile Id="{786df454-09d0-492f-9ef0-c07731d1606f}">
<AllAppsList>
<AllowedApps>
<App DesktopAppPath="C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"/>
</AllowedApps>
</AllAppsList>
<StartLayout>
<![CDATA[<LayoutModificationTemplate xmlns:defaultlayout="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout" xmlns:start="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/StartLayout" Version="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/LayoutModification">
<LayoutOptions StartTileGroupCellWidth="6" />
<DefaultLayoutOverride>
<StartLayoutCollection>
<defaultlayout:StartLayout GroupCellWidth="6">
<start:Group Name="Group1">
<start:Tile Size="4x4" Column="0" Row="0" DesktopAppPath="C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" />
</start:Group>
</defaultlayout:StartLayout>
</StartLayoutCollection>
</DefaultLayoutOverride>
</LayoutModificationTemplate>
]]>
</StartLayout>
<Taskbar ShowTaskbar="true"/>
<Taskbar/>
</Profile>
</Profiles>
<Configs>
<Config>
<Account>.\Kiosk-test</Account>
<DefaultProfile Id="{786df454-09d0-492f-9ef0-c07731d1606f}"/>
</Config>
</Configs>
</AssignedAccessConfiguration>
When i try to install it, it either wont install at all with Error code 0x8007000b on one computer or on my private computer the installation will fail.
The Settings say that i has to Lock the user interface and make changes to the device.
then the EventLogs say that it failed due to follwing error: "Error during verification because the document does not contain exactly one root node. (0xC00CE223)" (translated with deepl, so might be a bit different in reality)
I could not find a matching solution on the internet.
I also tried using the configuration Wizard for single app Kiosk, and there the same error occured.
Does anyone of you know a solution to that or can tell me what the problem is at all?
I tried to change every part of the code, so that every aspect (App, User, e.g.) is tested seperately.
I moved my computer out the group policies, so that there are no GPOs that vreate an error.
The error messages didn't change at all
Thanks and best Regards!
Is there a way to compile a WPF application twice in Visual Studio (version 2015/2017) with different manifest files?
On the one hand I need the application to require administrator permissions, on the other hand the same application without administrator permissions (means: without or another manifest file).
With compile constants I'm able to do something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<assembly manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<assemblyIdentity version="1.0.0.0" name="Update.app"/>
<trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2">
<security>
<requestedPrivileges xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
#if ADMIN
<requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" />
#endif
</requestedPrivileges>
</security>
</trustInfo>
</assembly>
but this doesn't seem to work like expected.
A solution where I only need to click the build button once and receive two applications would be perfect.
Another possible solution is to use post-build commands, but I'm not sure if this will work.
There is an option in Visual Studio 2017 (and maybe earlier versions, I cannot confirm) that allows you to build multiple configurations in a single run.
Look at the toolbar menu: "Build" > "Batch Build"
I have a Win Forms application that I work on in either on my laptop or desktop. (Nothing special about the software, what i working on seems irrelevent)
Both displays on the desktop and laptop have different text scaling options.
On one computer the project layout (position of text boxes, labels etc) is fine, BUT! If you open the project on the other, everything moves and the layout ( / my GUI) ends up completely ruined. If you build / save this project, then all is lost and it all has to be reset/relocated to suit the computer your are building it on. Once the project is actually built, the application runs / looks fine. (on any screen/ res/ dpi scale) (EDIT: The built version is fine if it was built with the layout correct)
It seems that VS's designer cant handle the DPI scale change when working on the forms.
Does anyone know of a solution to this? I have changed the DPI scaling mode on several controls/forms and nothing seems to work. Its this just a Visual Studio Bug???
Thanks interwebs.
EDIT: OK Here is a twist: If you open the project with your screen text scaling set the same as the computer you last saved the project on, THEN (with VS open) change the text scaling, the controls move correctly and everything looks fine. (Stuff is where it should be) ......
You may have solved this problem by now, but ... Have you tried creating an external manifest file for Visual Studio?
Process is described here: http://www.danantonielli.com/adobe-app-scaling-on-high-dpi-displays-fix/ I copied Antonielli's photoshop manifest file exactly and it seems to work fine, which does not mean I understand it. I will show it below in case someone with knowledge can correct any errors.
Just tried this now, but it seems to be working for me. I am moving windows form app dev from a 1920x1080 laptop to a 2560x1440 laptop and my app scales fine when it runs, but VS2015 screens are unreadable. So, what you see in design is a mess and NOT what you get when you run the app.
My app simply sets AUTOSCALEMODE to INHERIT on all forms and then sets AUTOSCALEMODE to FONT on main form. Various posts here discuss better methods I am sure (e.g, Creating a DPI-Aware Application and How to control the font DPI in .NET WinForms app).
Here is Antonielli's photoshop manifest file (must change registry first per his blog link above) which is saved on my computer as "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe.manifest":
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns:asmv3="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
<dependency>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity
type="win32"
name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"
version="6.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="*"
publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df"
language="*">
</assemblyIdentity>
</dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity
type="win32"
name="Microsoft.VC90.CRT"
version="9.0.21022.8"
processorArchitecture="amd64"
publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b">
</assemblyIdentity>
</dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
<trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
<security>
<requestedPrivileges>
<requestedExecutionLevel
level="asInvoker"
uiAccess="false"/>
</requestedPrivileges>
</security>
</trustInfo>
<asmv3:application>
<asmv3:windowsSettings xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings">
<ms_windowsSettings:dpiAware xmlns:ms_windowsSettings="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings">false</ms_windowsSettings:dpiAware>
</asmv3:windowsSettings>
</asmv3:application>
</assembly>
I'm working on a ClickOnce app that's set to online-only. I publish it to an internal IIS server, with an HTML page in the same directory that contains this link:
The deployment looks like so, with all files except the HTML page generated by my project's publish target:
MyAppName
-> Application Files
-> MyAppName_2213_20_0_65
-> <The published files>
-> default.html
-> MyAppName.application
When I click the link, the app runs immediately without any confirmation prompt, and I see from the about box that it's the old version. When I browse to the file share and launch MyAppName.application by double-clicking on it in Explorer, I get the prompt asking me if I'd like to run it, and then it downloads and I get an error:
Unable to install this application because an application with the same identity is already installed. To install this application, either modify the manifest version for this application or uninstall the preexisting application.
As part of the build process, I set the InstallUrl property of the project to http://ourserver/MyAppName/MyAppName.application. Is that wrong? Should it be the HTML page that contains the link? How is it determining the "identity" that's generating a conflict?
Since the app's online-only, it's not installed and doesn't show up in the Programs and Features control panel (and therefore that part of the error message doesn't apply).
I'm new to ClickOnce, so let me know if I left out some helpful information.
Update
If I run mage -cc from a Visual Studio command prompt, the new version launches instead of the old one.
Update 2
As I poked around more, I'm seeing something that looks wrong, and could be the problem. I see the following two lines in my MyAppName.application file (the deployment manifest):
...
<assemblyIdentity name="MyAppName" version="1.0.0.0" ...
...
<dependency>
<dependentAssembly dependencyType="install" codebase="Application Files\MyAppName_2213_20_0_65\MyAppName.exe.manifest" size="82044">
<assemblyIdentity name="MyAppName.exe" version="1.0.0.0" ...
...
You can see the mismatch above. It's deploying to MyAppName_2213_20_0_65, but it thinks the version number of the exe is 1.0.0.0. I'm not sure why it thinks that. My project includes a file that gets generated as part of the build with this line:
[assembly: AssemblyVersion("2213.20.0.65")]
Then, to set the published version number, I have this in my csproj file:
<Target Name="BeforePublish">
<GetAssemblyIdentity AssemblyFiles="$(TargetPath)">
<Output TaskParameter="Assemblies" ItemName="MyAppAssemblyInfo" />
</GetAssemblyIdentity>
<PropertyGroup>
<ApplicationVersion>%(MyAppAssemblyInfo.Version)</ApplicationVersion>
<InstallUrl>$(INSTALL_URL)</InstallUrl>
</PropertyGroup>
</Target>
Does the assembly version listed for my executable even matter? If it does, why is it stuck on 1.0.0.0, and could that be affecting the download of updated versions?
My second update put me on the right track. The problem was indeed the incorrect version number for the assemblyIdentity attributes. To fix it, I'm no longer using a BeforePublish target. Instead, I'm passing in the ApplicationVersion when I call MSBuild:
"%msbuild_path%" MyAppName.csproj /target:Publish /p:ApplicationVersion=%VERSION%
I have a very peculiar issue using Azure Table Storage. I have a .NET 4.5 project in Visual Studio 2012 where I deal with all my Azure Table Storage functions. This project/dll is referenced by two other projects, my MVC website, and my Azure Worker Role. (I am running under the Azure Emulators on my machine, but it also happens when I deploy it to the cloud)
I have the following function that is called when I save or retrieve a record:
internal static CloudTable GetTable(CloudStorageAccount storageAccount, string tableReference)
{
CloudTableClient tableClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudTableClient();
CloudTable table = tableClient.GetTableReference(tableReference);
table.CreateIfNotExists();
return tableClient.GetTableReference(table.Name);
}
In my MVC website I have a function that will save a record to a Azure Storage table, and then in my Azure Worker Role there is a service that will read the record.
So both uses the same dll for storage and retrieval, however my MVC project has no issues saving the record, but in my Azure Worker role service when it tries to retrieve the record throws the exception when it attempts to execute "table.CreateIfNotExists();".
Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Data.OData,
Version=5.2.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or
one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition
does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT:
0x80131040)
I have done the following already:
Updated all the NuGet packages from the solution level to the latest versions
I went through every project reference to make sure that there are no old dll's or previous versions hanging around, in particular the System.Spatial, Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Configuration, Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime and Microsoft.ServiceBus, Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage, Microsoft.Data.Edm & Microsoft.Data.OData
I have even created a new Cloud Service and WorkerRole project from scratch to make sure it is not something in the current WorkerRole project that is broken.
I have not rolled the dll's back to 5.2 as I had too many issues in other projects where I use features that are specific from 5.3 onwards.
I am currently running all the dll's on 5.5.
When I run the AsmSpy.exe utility found here, I get the following output that I am not 100% sure how to interpret.
> Reference: Microsoft.Data.Edm
> 5.5.0.0 by Microsoft.Data.OData
> 5.5.0.0 by Microsoft.Data.Services.Client
> 5.5.0.0 by Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ActiveDirectory.GraphHelper.2013_04_05
> Reference: System.Spatial
> 5.5.0.0 by Microsoft.Data.OData
> 5.5.0.0 by Microsoft.Data.Services.Client Reference: Microsoft.Data.OData
> 5.5.0.0 by Microsoft.Data.Services.Client
> 5.2.0.0 by Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage <-- THIS SEEMS TO BE THE ONE THAT IS CAUSING ISSUES
How I interpret it, is that the Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage dll is referencing V 5.2.0.0 of the Microsoft.Data.OData dll, but how do I fix this, if this is the issue? According to the documentation I have seen on the Storage dll is that it is supposed to reference 5.4 and up, not 5.2...?
Opening issue for such an easy to solve issue will not help you.
Put the following addition configuration in your respective config files (web.config for the MVC and app.config for the worker role):
<runtime>
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.Data.OData" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" culture="neutral" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-5.5.0.0" newVersion="5.5.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.Data.Edm" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" culture="neutral" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-5.5.0.0" newVersion="5.5.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>
</assemblyBinding>
</runtime>
Note that runtime section is direct descendant of the configuration root element! I'm pretty sure you already have this section in your web.config, because MVC4 uses it to rebind all references to System.Web.MVC to the latest version.
I personally do not expect the SDK to be updated with every new version of every referenced library! This would be madness...
I had a very similar problem but in this case it exception message was;
Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Data.OData,
Version=5.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or
one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition
does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT:
0x80131040)
note it was trying to load v5.5.0.0 of the OData assembly.
After some digging around with ILSpy (http://www.ilspy.net) I discovered that Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage 2.0.0.0 was explictly referencing Microsoft.Data.OData 5.2.0.0 - which I didn't have as my version was 5.5.0.0.
So the solution was to use the NuGet package manager to uninstall Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage, this inturn uninstalled Microsoft.Data.OData 5.5. Then again using the NuGet package manager, reinstall Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage which identified that it needed Microsoft.Data.OData 5.2 and installed that too.
and back to a working solution.
You can solve this issue in general whenever you update packages or add new packages via NuGet and end up with "Could Not Load file or Assembly..." issues.
Open the Package Manager Console (VS 2012 Tools/Library Package Manager/ Package Manager Console). Once the shell opens for the Package Manager Console run the command:
Add-BindingRedirect
Note: Be careful as the NugGet example added an 's' to the end in their example and Add-BindingRedirect is not a valid command.
This does the following:
Examines all assemblies in the output path for a project and adds
binding redirects to the application configuration (app.config) file
or to the web configuration (web.config) file where required.
You can see complete documentation for the Package Manager Console at: http://nuget.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Package%20Manager%20Console%20Command%20Reference%20(v1.3)
In addition to the two entries you see in astaykov's answer the following was also added for my Project.
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="System.Spatial" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" culture="neutral" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-5.5.0.0" newVersion="5.5.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>
I had similar problem today. The only difference I spotted is my cloud app was looking (and failing to find) for Microsoft.Data.OData in Version=5.2.0.0
Using Visual Studio Object Browser i found out that my solution used library from that location:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft WCF Data Services\5.0\bin\.NETFramework
Microsoft.Data.OData library residing there was in ver. 5.0.0.0 so overwriting it with 5.2.0.0 resolved the problem.
P.S. I installed WCF Data Services Tools for Windows Store Apps earlier in hope of resolving this issue so it may happen that your application gets it from another source. If that is the case you have two options:
Install WCF Data Services Tools for Windows Store Apps from here and use solution above.
Use Visual Studio Object Browser to find what versions of OData library are currently visible for your project and where they are stored. Next you need to overwrite improper versions of them.
I had a similar problem as well, but I wasn't using Azure and there was no hard-coded reference that was pointing to 5.2. But it resolved (after finding this article) by making sure that the text in the .svc pointed to the correct assembly:
<%# ServiceHost Language="C#"
Factory="System.Data.Services.DataServiceHostFactory,
Microsoft.Data.Services, Version=5.6.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"
Service="MVC4WCFDataServiceFE5.NorthWindService" %>
Note the Version=5.6.0.0, which I didn't have before.