I have been playing quite a bit with the Updater Application Block as of late.  I have heard a number of folks complain that it is hard to get working.  Well I finally found one big problem with the Quickstarts.  They use http to download updates in this case off my local IIS 6.0 install.  The download was always failing with a message about a file not being found however if you looked at the directory all the files they were looking for were clearly there.

Well this is the second time in two weeks I have been bit by IIS 6.0 and the fact that if a MIME type isn't defined for an extension IIS 6.0 won't serve the file. It will instead return a 404.  I had to add a mime type for the .PDB files that the manifest they setup attempts to download.  Don't know if this was a step they forgot to tell you about or if their testing was all done on IIS 5.x.  In any case there is your key from the wizard for this week.

Monday, April 19, 2004 8:37:14 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [1]