deployment

Releasing your web application into the wild

Let's say you've written the next social networking phenomenon (or any other web app). You've chosen Java, Tomcat, Apache and Oracle (or whatever setup that you like). You know want to get it out there on the web and have people sign up and start using it. What is the next step for something that you have written at home and want to...

Can ClickOnce deployed application setup be compressed?

I publish Windows Forms application using ClickOnce. The installation is quite big considering the overall size of this app. It's something over 15 MB. If I compress locally built application it is squeezed to 2.5 MB. Can ClickOnce deployment be compressed somehow? If not, is anyone using IIS compression to speed up transfers? Would t...

How do you deploy a website to your webservers?

At my company we have a group of 8 web developers for our business web site (entirely written in PHP, but that shouldn't matter). Everyone in the group is working on different projects at the same time and whenever they're done with their task, they immediately deploy it (cause business is moving fast these days). Currently the develop...

After deploying via ClickOnce, where are the dlls stored on the client machine?

I read somewhere that config data is stored under user account->Local Settings->Application data, but can't find where the dlls, exes and resource files are going. I know ClickOnce uses an application store and a data directory to store its application data, but are these accessible to the client? Are they browseable? ...

Aside from the Addins folder, where (and how) do VS add-ins get deployed?

I'm trying to figure out how it's possible to deploy a Visual Studio add-in to its own folder, rather than using the Addins folder. I know it's possible - tools like ReSharper do it - but I cannot find any info on how to tell VS where the add-in is located. Can someone explain to me how it's done? Thanks! ...

Ensure latest version with clickonce deployment

How could I ensure that all the clients will always be using the latest version of a winforms application (updates from a network place, suppose always connected) while deploying it with clickonce. Thanks. ...

Do not overwrite the app.config when deploying with clickonce

How can I specify my app to not overwrite the app.config on the client machines when the app is updated by clickonce? ...

How to config CSLA for n-Tier deployment scenarios?

Need Quick and fast list of configuration changes required while moving from single-tier to multi-tier in CSLA deployment Detailed explanation of the above checklist A How to list ...

Considerations for developing for a VM deployment

I'm setting up a system that uses SQL Server 2005, several custom Windows Services, Web Services and a few IIS .NET applications. Getting the whole system setup is a somewhat tedious process. I wondered whether it would be a good idea to settup the whole system in a VM. Could I then just drop the VM onto a new server and get a huge he...

Where should I deploy my application?

Under Windows Vista (2008 and Seven), an application cannot write in Program Files Folder. I understand that UAC is the responsible, but it prevents my application to self-update. Is there a folder somewhere (available in Windows XP, Vista (and all other version)) which would allow me to deploy my application and let it self-update witho...

How to deploy a Python application with libraries as source with no further dependencies?

Background: I have a small Python application that makes life for developers releasing software in our company a bit easier. I build an executable for Windows using py2exe. The application as well as the binary are checked into Subversion. Distribution happens by people just checking out the directory from SVN. The program has about 6 di...

Has Anyone Tried Webistrano?

I am looking for a remote deployment strategy for the projects I am working on and even went so far to start designing one from scratch. But I've stumbled over a near-identical implementation called Webistrano. Has anyone tried using it for project deployment, is anyone still using it? Is it any good, or does it make you want to stab ...

Error deploying an app to JBoss 5 that was working fine on JBoss 4.2

Im trying to deploy an application (.ear file) to JBoss 5, and I'm receiving the following error. The app deploys fine under 4.2.2. 15:31:33,172 ERROR [AbstractKernelController] Error installing to Real: name=vfszip:/C:/ASE/ext/jboss-5.0.0.GA/server/all/dep loy/UGC-WS.ear state=PreReal mode=Manual requiredState=Real org.jboss.deployers....

How do you use WiX to deploy VSTO 3.0 addins?

I want to deploy a VSTO 3 Application Level Word 2007 addin that I've written with Visual Studio 2008. I see that WiX has an extension named WixOfficeExtension that looks like it might have this functionality, but I can't find any documentation for it, and I can't discern it's purpose from the source code. Has anyone attempted this befo...

Total number of loaded classes in Glassfish

I have enterprise app with EJB. The total size of the app is 34 meg. When i deploy my app everything is fine but when I redeploy it the number of total loaded classes increases. I'm using visualVM to see this info. So is it how it should be or it's a memory leak. How to solve this problem? Thanks ...

compiling c++ applications so they can work on other computers as well

So I have this very simply SDL application I want to be able to pass to my friend without having him download a whole bunch of SDL packages. how can I go about this? I was told to use this line to compile: (note that I use ubuntu linux and so does my friend, and that this application compiles and runs without the "-Wl,-Bstatic" options...

Merge msi and exe

Hi My deployment project creates and .msi-file and an .exe-file. Is it possible to merge these into one .exe? ...

Deploying Ruby on Rails with Apache and Mongrel

Hi Folks, I'm fairly new to ruby on rails and web development. Here is my setup which I followed from this link http://tonyrose023.blogspot.com/2007/01/multiple-rails-apps-with-mongrel.html I run multiple rails applications on Apache2 with Mongrel clusters. http://services.abc.edu/app1 http://services.abc.edu/app2 http://services.abc.ed...

Do I have to build my LabVIEW instrument driver under Program Files?

I'm trying to build a LabVIEW plug and play instrument driver project for a device we sell. I followed the instructions to create a project, and it created the project in with the LabVIEW program: C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 8.0\instr.lib I suppose I could connect that folder to source control and just do all the ...

Migrating applications from Dev to QA to Prod

I have a number of webservices and clients (click-once deployment) that I am wondering how to deploy efficiently. We have a QA department that reviews and tests releases as well as an operations group that currently does the 'deployment' which basically consists of copying tested releases from QA boxes to Prod boxes. The process is quite...