I have an application which references the assembly "Microsoft.Xna.Framework, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=6d5c3888ef60e27d". I have created an installer project that installs this assembly in the GAC (by running the XNA redist installer). However, when this assembly is first used, I receive an exception during JITin...
I recently built a new application using WPF, so that I can learn the new technology. Now that I am trying to deploy the application, it appears as if it is running fine on a Vista system, but on a Windows XP SP2 machine with the .Net fx 3.5SP1, it's not able to load the PresentationFramework.dll file. I did some further investigation ...
I recently stepped into a project that is using Telerik Sitefinity CMS with custom user controls. I would like to get the developers off of the production server. Does anyone have any experience with deploying a Sitefinity site by means of publication (precompiled .DLL)? Any discussion of benefits, disadvantages, or potential issues...
My iPhone application runs fine in the simulator. I'm trying to deploy it onto a physical iPhone. When I install the provisioning profile, my Organizer says "A signing identity matching this profile could not be found in your keychain." I can't resolve this. What do I do? ...
What is the best way of counting the number of times that a ClickOnce-deployed program has been installed or updated? Also, is it possible to somehow track who is installing or updating it (e.g., geographically)? ...
I have a semi-large web application that we run locally and I need to deploy it at another location. The second location will require some slight modifications to the project (especially cosmetic). How do you manage these differences and what do you use to distribute the site and updates to a customer like this? Edit: Right now our web ...
In the past my development team we have mostly done waterfall development against an existing application and deployments were only really done towards the end of a release which would normally result in TEST, UAT, PROD releases normally only consisting of three to five releases in a two month cycle. A release was an MSI installer, depl...
VS 2003 .NET 1.1 I know when I build a website into a DLL I do not have to distribute the cs files. When my project includes strongly typed datasets built off an XSD file, should I also distribute the XSD file, or does the generated cs file (and thus the DLL) contain all the required information to use the Dataset? Thanks! ...
For one client, I have to deliver a build they use in QA and production. The checksum of the build file has to match - it cannot change at all between QA and production. The configuration for each environment is different, so I have a build that contains just the code and then a separate build for each environment that contains just th...
I'm migrating from Visual source safe to SVN, so please forgive my ignorance. I was browsing this link which talk about best practices in SVN. And something seems very wierd to me. Copies of third party software projects or depedencies in SVN is unacceptable What ??? How Team city is supposed to build my project if I don't save the...
What is the purpose of the RAILS_GEM_VERSION setting in config/environment.rb? Is it supposed to stop your app from running under an unexpected version of Rails? I just keep Rails updated to the latest release on my laptop and in production. Since I do that, can I comment out RAILS_GEM_VERSION or should I set it for some reason? ...
Im using Eclipse 3.4, EclipseMe 1.7.9. Im trying to deploy/"create package" a simple project with an external .jar file (LWUIT.jar) included. When I try to create the package with the the .jar file exported (Properties -> Java build path -> order and export) I receieve the following error msg: "Error during build" (Details: Errors duri...
Hi What is the best way to copy an existing SharePoint MOSS site and then recreate a copy of it on the same server? I want to ideally include web parts but not actual content like documents etc. I've looked at using the SPDeploymentWizard and saving the site as a template but the SPDeploymentWizard takes all the content and saving it ...
I have been creating a website with Ruby on Rails, and will be hosting it through a friend. He has the space and capacity to host the server, and I have a system to devote to being a dedicated server. And this is my first attempt at a Rails website, plus self-hosting with a friend. I will be formatting and preparing the server today a...
I have a cluster of 32 servers and I need a tool to distribute a Java service, packaged as a Jar file, to each machine and remotely start the service. The cluster consists of Linux (Suse 10) servers with 8 cores per blade. The application is a data grid which uses Oracle Coherence. What is the best tool for doing this? ...
Sander, has wrote a related article for this... http://todotnet.com/archive/2005/10/11/2595.aspx unfortunately the code is in C#. Which is the equivelant to the vb.net version? ...
I'm using git for a PHP project, I think it's really handy. There is one thing that would be great if I get it to work. I have created a branch, meant for deployment. It has some differences, like different configuration files and documentation. I can't just ignore them, because then they will stay in both branches, while i would like ...
I have a small VPS server that has a Nginx front end that serves up static media files and passes Django requests back to an Apache 2.2 prefork MPM server running mod_wsgi. With one (very) small site loaded and working, it's currently using 143MB of 256MB of RAM. Using the top command I can see that Apache is using 52.9% of available R...
I've always deployed my web applications via FTP (sometimes even xcopy), and then manually run database scripts myself. I started deploying this way in the 90's, but lately, I've seen a few web apps with installers. I'm starting to question, if I'm locked into an out dated process. I'm a consultant, my apps are usually internal, so ...
If you had a DBA who was responsible for deploying databases in a live environment, what would you choose to give him? A database creation script or a backup which he could restore onto an existing database? What kinds of advantages/disadvantages are there? (We're using MSSQL2000 and MSSQL2005) ...