Talk:WowAceUpdater

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There is a long standing bug problem with the WowAceUpdater going to 100% CPU utlization (sometimes 50% on dual CPU/core machines) when it goes to download the index. Several people have attempted to post bug information on the sourceforge site, but no one seems to be working to resolve the issues: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=178751&atid=886395

Please help get this annoying and long standing bug problem resolved.

Any thought as to an easy method for using an older (without a bug) version of a plugin? I was picturing an option when you right-click that allows you to step the installed version back a version, but would install a newer version when that becomes available. I'm not sure if you'd want the most recent version or the most recent major release...

The updater is designed as a developer tool to grab and install the latest release from the SVN. It's not meant as an auto-installer or old version manager. Ghoste 19:33, 28 November 2007 (EST)

Has anyone tried running this app on Linux? Aigarius 16:46, 1 December 2007 (EST)

--DARKGuy 23:49, 12 April 2008 (EDT):

Hi! I've discovered that WoWAce Updater has two weird bugs:

1. On a Win XP Pro SP2 box with .NET 2.0 already installed from dotnetfx.exe and Windows Updates (essential ones, 96 of them) without restarting, throws an error about "Value does not fall within the expected range".

2. On a Win XP Pro SP2 laptop with .NET 2.0 already installed and NO updates, it displays the AddOn list for a few seconds before throwing out some memory read/write errors. When looking at the debug log it is related to displaying the ads on the bottom of the main window.

Solution: Install .NET 2.0 Service Pack 1 and/or .NET Framework 3.0. That solved the problems for me.

I have been wanting to run this program under Linux either with Mono or WINE, but I don't even know -how- to run it, since it isn't even a .exe app, it's a lot of .manifest and .application files I don't know how to execute them, at least they don't look "executable" to me.

I'd be glad if someone could update the main page and state that the user needs .NET 2.0 with SP1 or .NET 3.0 before running or they'll run into errors!!

--Holyfield 21:21, 5 June 2008 (EDT)

Same Problem on Windows Vista with the last version of AceUpdater, but updating .NET doesnt seem to have any effect (.NET 3.5 installed)

-> AceUpdater displays the AddOn list for a few seconds before throwing out some memory read/write errors and crashes. (Data Execution Prevention, DEP)

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striked addon names

One thing I noticed in 1.9 is some addons ( I guess outdated ) are striked out ~~Like this~~. I think it should be noted in the well ,, err ,, notes :)

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corrupted wau

I received the message that the updater needed to be updated. Now none of my wau works says to contact the user. Here is a copy of the log

PLATFORM VERSION INFO Windows : 5.1.2600.131072 (Win32NT) Common Language Runtime : 2.0.50727.42 System.Deployment.dll : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) mscorwks.dll : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) dfdll.dll : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) dfshim.dll : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)

SOURCES Deployment url : file:///C:/DOCUME~1/Micki/LOCALS~1/Temp/Temporary%20Directory%201%20for%20Install_WAU.zip/WowAceUpdater.application

ERROR SUMMARY Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log. * Activation of C:\DOCUME~1\Micki\LOCALS~1\Temp\Temporary Directory 1 for Install_WAU.zip\WowAceUpdater.application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected: + The referenced assembly is not installed on your system. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800736B3)

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION FAILURE SUMMARY No transaction error was detected.

WARNINGS There were no warnings during this operation.

OPERATION PROGRESS STATUS * [5/6/2008 9:07:27 AM] : Activation of C:\DOCUME~1\Micki\LOCALS~1\Temp\Temporary Directory 1 for Install_WAU.zip\WowAceUpdater.application has started.

ERROR DETAILS Following errors were detected during this operation. * [5/6/2008 9:07:27 AM] System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException - The referenced assembly is not installed on your system. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800736B3) - Source: System.Deployment - Stack trace: at System.Deployment.Internal.Isolation.IStore.GetAssemblyInformation(UInt32 Flags, IDefinitionIdentity DefinitionIdentity, Guid& riid) at System.Deployment.Internal.Isolation.Store.GetAssemblyManifest(UInt32 Flags, IDefinitionIdentity DefinitionIdentity) at System.Deployment.Application.ComponentStore.GetSubscriptionStateInternal(DefinitionIdentity subId) at System.Deployment.Application.SubscriptionStore.GetSubscriptionStateInternal(SubscriptionState subState) at System.Deployment.Application.SubscriptionStore.CheckAndReferenceApplication(SubscriptionState subState, DefinitionAppId appId, Int64 transactionId) at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestDirectBypass(SubscriptionStore subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, SubscriptionState& subState, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options, ServerInformation& serverInformation) at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestBypass(SubscriptionStore subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, SubscriptionState& subState, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options) at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.PerformDeploymentActivation(Uri activationUri, Boolean isShortcut) at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.ActivateDeploymentWorker(Object state)

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION DETAILS No transaction information is available.

If anyone can help please let me know

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Installing WAU without IE

Firstly, the linked addon has not been updated for use with Firefox 3 (the current release.) Also, it obviously doesn't work with Opera, Safari, or other browsers.

The problem is that .application files must be "run" from the server, not downloaded and run from disk (brilliant move there, Microsoft!)

It might be worth noting that WAU can be installed by selecting Start, Run and entering the following command:

rundll32.exe dfshim.dll,ShOpenVerbApplication http://www.wowace.com/wau/WowAceUpdater.application

How to arrive at this:

Load up regedit.
Open HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.application - this is the file extension association for .application files.
Note that the default key value is Application.Manifest - this is the name of the file type key.
Open HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Application.Manifest\shell\open\command - this is the command executed when you "open" an .application file either by double-clicking it, or selecting "Run" from a browser.
The value of the default key is the actual command. This is rundll32.exe dfshim.dll,ShOpenVerbApplication %1 where %1 is the URL of the .application file.