deployment

Web setup problem

Hello. I need to package my ASP.NET Silverlight web site to a single MSI file. But when creating web setup project, it can't install on iis version greater than 6. On greater versions it only installs when 'IIS 6 compatibility mode' is enabled on server. How can i make my setup project, so it installs correctly? PS I don't have admin ri...

JSF 2.0 with RAD 8.0 & WAS 7.0.0.0

Hi, I'm trying to develop JSF 2.0 applications with IBM's "RAD8 and WAS7.0.0.0". When I deployed the application via RAD 8 IDE, the application configuration options were disabled so that I could not change anything such as "class loader policy" and adding "shared library references". Once I deployed manually an exported EAR file (usi...

Can you reccomend me a book on asp.NET application deployment?

Hi, Can you advise a book or an article with full coverage of asp.Net application deployment? I mean consider you have developed your software on your local machine and now you want to host your application on a server. So I need a book, covering all the stages from selecting the right asp.net host to setting up the environment of your...

Web deployment with compressed files

Short Version When using file compressors like YUI compressor, what is the proper procedure for deploying your website, so that you don't have to mess with compressed files during development time? Should there be a compression script as part of the release process? Long Version I just joined a project where we use YUI compressor for ...

Deploying PIA to mixed versions of Office

Hello I have been fighting some complexities with understanding deployment of Primary Interop Assemblies (PIA) for MS Office. I have Visual Studio Com Add-IN built in VS 2008 on pure com technology (not VSTO see bottom of this for more on that), which references 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies but the add-in may be used on 2003, 2007 or...

Is there any kind of idiots guide to deploying your ASP.NET MVC website in one click?

Hello. I'm about to begin building a website using the ASP.NET MVC framework and I'm trying to find a good solution to 1)Source Control Management and 2)Deployment. For the SCM, I'm probably going to use SourceGear since it integrates into Visual Studio nicely, but for deployment, I don't even know where to start. Up until know, most ...

What's the best way to deploy multiple projects to a server with Git?

I am about to take the plunge and start using Git for actual projects that others use! So far I've used Git on some basic projects and played around with Github for some university projects, but now me and some others will be working on multiple projects. As a result we'll be hosting Git on a remote server and to be honest it'd be great...

silverlight database access problem

For training purposes I created a simple silverlight 4 application which uses ADO.NET Entity Data Model and a Domain Service Class to connect to an SQL Express database to query it. The database is fully accesible in the dev mode if I run the application from the Visual Studio 2010 but after deploying it on a server the database connect...

Subversion planning for development, staging, live

Good evening everyone. I am in the planning stages of restructuring our subversion process and deployment in the attempt to minimize code loss and production deployment issues. Our current system simply consists of creating a sub domain name on a random server to test with before pushing live which drives me nuts. I wanted to hear som...

Custom header in iis 6.0

How to add custom header by the msi. I wanna add custom header in IIS6.0 at the time of deployment. How to add custom header automatically? Thanx in advance ...

CF - Language directory missing after installing CAB on device.

Hello ! On some of the controls im using locatisation (language property). Besides default (that is in english) im also using additional language (slovenian). Other localisation is done with application resource file. If i debug the app on emulator there is a directory (si-sl), but if i build a CAB and install the CAB on emulator ther...

Deployment Project not Removing Previous Project COM References

I have a Microsoft Visual Studio Deployment Project that generates a basic setup.exe and appropriate MSI file. I leave the UpdateCode alone, but change the ProjectCode and Version on each build. I've also set the RemovePreviousVersions property to True. However, after I upgrade a machine, it seems as though any class flagged with COM doe...

SSRS 2008 R2 - cannot logon to localhost/reports

When attempting to deploy a SSRS 2008 R2 Report to my localhost/ReportServer, or trying to login to localhost/reportserver (via web browser), I am not able to get any further than a security error message. When trying to access the report server via a web browser, I'm prompted to enter my login credentials. Even though I am the admin o...

Implications of deploying a Debug build of an application?

I would like to know the pros and cons for deciding to deploy an application which was built in Debug (with debug symbol table) and opposed to Release mode where the symbols are stripped. There are other permutations like turn on optimisations for Debug and turning on debug symbols for Release. The areas which I think may be of concern ...

How to deploy and manage java programs across servers?

I wrote some java server side processing apps that have been running on a couple servers but will be expanded to 20 servers. Right now I'm just using ant scripts to deploy my jar to servers via rsync and then using screen to start the jobs. This requires me to ssh in and restart the jobs each time I deploy new code, once I go to 20 ser...

What's the best deployment strategy for ASP.NET

I work for an ISV and we have a vanilla ASP.NET (no mvc) web application which we deploy to our customer sites. We're currently doing it via xcopy and IIS manually. What's the best technology to use to deploy it? ClickOnce? WebDeploy? Something else? Tips appreciated. ...

What determines the speed of an svn copy

Hi there, What factors determine the speed of calling an svn copy when packaging up a tag from trunk for a release? I've been using git for the year or two and on a recent project I've had to go back to using subversion, and calling svn copy is taking anything between 2 and 25 minutes to complete on my machine before I commit, without...

Windows Service without [RunInstaller]

I wrote a Windows Service using C#.NET. To install the service, I've added a "Project Installer" class that inherited from the Installer class and decorated with the [RunInstaller]. Without the [RunInstaller] decoration, I cannot install the service using installutil. Why is it that by deploying the service using the ServiceInstall tab...

Can ANT start restart jobs on remote servers?

Is it possible to have ANT restart your java application on a remote server from a build script? If so any pointers to where that might be defined? I'm using ant now to push the new code over to the remote server but I still have to login to actually restart the app ...

Ant can't find my JAR file? Trying to do an sshexec task

I'm trying to use the sshexec task for ANT on my OSX box, when I try to run it I get the error listed below. I've downloaded the jsch jar file from: http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/index.html version jsch-0.1.43.jar I placed that file into /usr/share/ant/lib and still the error occurs. any ideas? thanks <target name="testme" depends=""> <...