WildGums/Orc.Squirrel

samirem

@samirem

Have you faced a similar situation and solved it somehow? Or do you have any idea how it could be done? I guess I could fork Squirrel and add some registry manipulation during installation, but honestly I'm very unexperienced and fear that it might not be easy enough. I also think that this should be a fairly easy thing to do..

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

See Orc.Fileassociation and run it at app startup

samirem

@samirem

My app has recently stopped updating automatically. I've been debugging a lot to try to find the problem. After enabling file logging and running the released exe, I found this line:

16:09:07:784 => [INFO] [Orc.Squirrel.UpdateService] [1] Automatic updates are disabled

Which must come from this:
https://github.com/WildGums/Orc.Squirrel/blob/develop/src/Orc.Squirrel/Orc.Squirrel.Shared/Services/UpdateService.cs#L157

Now, the strange thing is that I've not changed anything in my code.. can it possibly be some change in the ConfigurationService that breaks the behaviour?
My code for calling HandleUpdatesAsync() is as follows:

var updateService = serviceLocator.ResolveType<IUpdateService>();
var updateChannel = new UpdateChannel("Stable", "https://...");
updateService.Initialize(new[] {updateChannel}, updateChannel, true);
updateService.HandleUpdatesAsync(DateTime.MaxValue);

samirem

@samirem

I managed to solve it now by setting

configurationService.SetRoamingValue("AutomaticUpdates.CheckForUpdates", true);

but the "updateService.Initialize()"-method should already do this as far as I can tell

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

@samirem Did you recently update any packages (e.g. Catel or Orchestra)?

samirem

@samirem

I updated the following:

Catel.Fody from 2.14 to 2.16.2,
Fody from 1.29.4 to 2.0.2,
LoadAssembliesOnStartup.Fody from 1.7.0 to 1.8.1,
MethodTimer.Fody from 1.16.0 to 1.19.0,
ModuleInit.Fody from 1.5.9.0 to 1.6.0,
Mono.Cecil from 0.9.6.1 to 0.10.0-beta6

I do believe that my automatic updates stopped working before this though, but I am not 100% sure.

I do remember that my automatic updates broke from version 0.0.9 to 0.0.10, and at first I believed that it was a bug with squirrel.windows (not accepting number higher than 9). But I found that it stopped working when I tried updating from 0.1.0 to 0.1.1 as well.

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

we recommend using GitVersion for versioning, but that's another story

you are sure the end-user didn't disable the automatic updates?

samirem

@samirem

I'll look into GitVersion, thx!
Yes I'm sure, at this point the app is still in testing stage, so I'm the end-user at the moment

samirem

@samirem

Actually, now I found this in my logs:
[WARNING] [Catel.Data.ModelBase] [1] Property 'AutomaticUpdates.CheckForUpdates' is registered after construction of type 'Catel.Configuration.DynamicConfiguration', but could not be found using reflection

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

that's ok, it's a dynamic configuration (hence dynamic properties, and thus not found v ia reflection)

samirem

@samirem

@GeertvanHorrik I want to restart my application after it has been updated by Orc.Squirrel (and preferably keep any command-line args), do you have any sample code of this? Since catel/orchestra is so extensive, I'm assuming that there already exists some neat service for this, which I haven't found :)

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

Unfortunately we don't have such behavior. We show a squirrel icon in the app and let the user restart the app in a convenient time. They can double click the squirrel and we'll ask them whether they want to restart. We could simple pass in the same command line again there, but nothing out of the box.

samirem

@samirem

Oh ok, so my best bet is something like this?

updateService.HandleUpdatesAsync();
if (updateService.IsUpdatedInstalled)
{
    System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(System.Windows.Application.ResourceAssembly.Location, Environment.GetCommandLineArgs());
    System.Windows.Application.Current.Shutdown();
}

I would also like a yes/no dialog to pop up with a message like "The application was just updated. Would you like to restart it now?", sorry for my newbish question but which way is easiest to do this?

Nevermind my question about the Yes/No-dialog, I found it here in the docs:

if (await messageService.Show("Are you sure you want to do this?", "Are you sure?", MessageButton.YesNo) == MessageResult.Yes)
{
    // Do it!
}

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

correct, something like that

but then use the IProcessService

we show a less intrusive icon in the status bar, then it's up to the user to either restart now or just do it on the next run

samirem

@samirem

That sounds like a very good idea. It's not nice to throw "annoying" messages in the end-users face

IProcessService instead of System.Diagnostics.Process.Start?

Orc.Notifications to show the status bar icon?

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

Orc.Notifications shows a desktop notification

we have a separate statusbar that simply watches this service as well and toggle visibility on an icon

samirem

@samirem

@GeertvanHorrik at first startup after installation my app gets a CrashWarningWindow, do you know why this could be?

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

This is something from Orchestra, happens if the app hasn't been started corretly previously

samirem

@samirem

yeah, but if the user does a fresh installation, the first startup of the application gives this window

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

that's not good. Do you initialize the %appdata% based on existing data?

this windows is being shown when %appdata%\company\product\started_failed.txt exists

samirem

@samirem

hm, that catalogue should not exist prior to installation, and I'm only adding the "standard" squirrel files/catalogues during installation

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

if you run the app twice, it could be instance 1 still starting up

and the 2nd instance showing this window

but I have no details about logging, et

samirem

@samirem

yeah maybe

as far as I know, at the end of squirrel installation the app is started

and then in my application I run the "SquirrelHelper.HandleSquirrelAutomatically();" to check if the app was just installed

that shows the window from Orc.Squirrel.Xaml, with a "run" button to run the app

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

that all looks good

samirem

@samirem

and when my user press this button, then the problem occurs

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

what you can do is enable debug logging for your app

in app config, add this

  <configSections>
    <sectionGroup name="catel">
      <section name="logging" type="Catel.Logging.LoggingConfigurationSection, Catel.Core" />
    </sectionGroup>
  </configSections>

  <catel>
    <logging>
      <listeners>
        <!--TODO: the line below must be commented out in stable release-->
        <!--<listener type="Catel.Logging.FileLogListener" IgnoreCatelLogging="true" IsDebugEnabled="true" IsInfoEnabled="true" IsWarningEnabled="true" IsErrorEnabled="true" />-->
      </listeners>
    </logging>
  </catel>

then you can easily uncomment the line when you want debug logging in production

samirem

@samirem

What should I look for in the log file? (i.e., what namespace produces the startupfailed.txt file?)

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

something in orchestra, not 100 % sure

samirem

@samirem

16:52:08:757 => [DEBUG] [Orchestra.Services.EnsureStartupService] [1] Creating fail safe file check
16:52:08:758 => [DEBUG] [Orc.FileSystem.FileService] [1] Creating file 'C:\Users\SESAEM\AppData\Roaming\Construction Software\Continuous Beam\startupfailed.txt'

nothing strange before this

oh wait a second, it seems like my second app starts before my first app has closed, like you pointed out

samirem

@samirem

my app is doing a lot of startup stuff even after this line:
16:52:05:939 => [INFO] [Orc.Squirrel.SquirrelHelper] [1] Closing application
Should it not break the startup process here and shut down asap?

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

your app should shut down, but not sure if it's something that's done automatically or whether you should be doing that

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