deployment

Is it absolutely necessary to manually configure IIS6 to use ASP.NET MVC?

I have a web hosting that replied to me it was not possible to alter the IIS6 settings to set the mapping of .mvc to the Asp.Net ISAPI dll, nor enable Wildcard Application Mappings. In short, I cannot change any IIS setting. Is there any way to run ASP.NET Mvc in that conditions? Note: I read a few related questions here about this, b...

How can I deploy my WCF Service without IIS?

I'm doing some quick Java-.NET interop and have decided on POX with WCF. However, I don't want to -- nor have access to -- deploy to IIS. Would just wrapping it up as a .NET Service be the way to go? (I've built my fair share of Windows services in my years.) Are there any good samples around of this? What handles the HTTP if I'...

How do YOU deploy your WSGI application? (and why it is the best way)

Deploying a WSGI application. There are many ways to skin this cat. I am currently using apache2 with mod-wsgi, but I can see some potential problems with this. So how can it be done? Apache Mod-wsgi (the other mod-wsgi's seem to not be worth it) Pure Python web server eg paste, cherrypy, Spawning, Twisted.web as 2 but with reverse pr...

asp.net DB: How to handle when publishing on webserver?

Should the ASPNETDB be left in default app folder created by Visual Studio when deploying on webserver? I have another DB that is in the mssql data folder, should that be placed in same directory as well? Im not clear on whether it matters one way or the other. ...

How is the Deployment in different Programming Languages?

If you are interested in programming languages, you sure have encountered the problem that you start to learn a language and worry about deployment later. Sometimes until it's too late. Web deployment only with a special module for Apache and you have Lighttpd on your server? Need to buy an expensive version of your development environm...

major.minor.build.revision versioning style vs year.month.day.whatever versioning style

Is there any reason to use one versioning style over the other for .NET assemblies???? I'd like to know if there are any advantages/disadvantages in using either style besides taste. ...

Salesforce - How to Deploy between Environments (Sandboxes, Live etc)

We're looking into setting up a proper deployment process. From what I've read there seems to be 4 methods of doing this. Copy & Paste -- We don't want to do this Using the "Package" mechanism built into the Salesforce Web Interface Eclipse Force IDE "Deploy to Server" option Ant Script (haven't tried this one yet) Does anyone have ...

How do I force where an assembly is loaded from?

I have developed a console utility that performs some operations against a server application. Due to the nature of the server app I'm working with, I need to execute this utility on the server. The problem is that the utility is referencing a common DLL that has previously been deployed to the server's GAC. Since the common DLL's deplo...

Automatic updates - what is 'adequate' security?

There are a few questions (C#, Java) that cover how one might implement automatic updates. It appears initially easy to provide automatic updates, and there are seemingly no good reasons not to provide automatic updates for most software. However, none appear to cover the security aspects of automatic updates. How safe are automatic ...

Deploying an ASP.NET MVC app to IIS7 and keeping a clean web.config

I'd like to deploy my ASP.NET MVC application to a web hosting company (like DiscountASP.net). I'm confused about what needs to be in the web.config file on the web server. When I create the project locally, I get a bloated web.config with all sorts of additional modules, handlers, compilers. Do I need to add all these items to the pr...

Software Architecture and Database Design: One database/web application per each company or one database/web application for all companies?

Hello gurus, I'm designing a web driven SQL database application from ground up. The application will manage information for clients that are in the same type of industry. In other words, the information (entities and relations among them) regarding each client does not vary too much from one to the next. However, the volume of the i...

Deployment of Web Application to a Running Tomcat

Hello, I would like to collect some best-practices on deployment of a web-application to a running Tomcat. Not long ago I had to describe the deployment process of our web-application and the process appeared rather confusing. Say, we have an application in a WAR file (foo.war) correctly configured and not requiring additional configura...

Error with Windows Installer ... "Unable to get installer types"

Good morning everyone, I'm experiencing an error when using the windows installer to install an event source in a product I am deploying. The error message I receive states the following ... Unable to get installer types in the c:\temp\program.exe assembly. --> Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the ...

How do you manage embedded configuration files and libraries in java webapps?

I'm currently working on a j2ee project that's been in beta for a while now. Right now we're just hammering out some of the issues with the deployment process. Specifically, there are a number of files embedded in the war (some xml-files and .properties) that need different versions deploying depending on whether you are in a dev, testin...

SSIS Deployment Utility - specifying different folders in MSDB

I am deploying my SSIS packages to MSDB by configuring the deployment utility and creating the manifest file in Visual Studio (2005). In the Integration Services, I created a new folder to segregate my packages. Is there a way to specify this folder for my packages when creating the deployment utility? If not, how do I move packages in...

Recommended .NET app installer?

I need to create an install for my app that executes the following actions: Copies files Writes registry settings Registers a windows service Writes an XML app.config file (based on user supplied info during install--a connection string) Executes SQL scripts against a remote database (connection info obtained in #4) Installs and regist...

How can I assure that a component provided by me for web application is not used for multiple domains or websites.

I am a ruby on rails developer and I have developed several plugins, may be i will be selling them to some web sites and they can use my plugin in there application. But i want to assure that the plugin code once given to them is not used for any other application, if they do so i must know where is it deployed. I just need a way to tra...

.NET Deployment to Network Share

I have a .NET 3.5 application that I wish to install on the client's server and have workstations run it directly from the network share. I've read a bit that seems to suggest this isn't as easy as simply copying the application to the network share like I would for a native exe. Unfortunately, there seems to be a lack of documentation o...

Command-line to "deploy" ASP.NET MVC project

I am using Visual Studio Team Suites to develop a ASP.NET MVC project. I can deploy the web app to my dev machine using the "deploy" item from IS. Is there a command-line tool to do this task? What I am trying to do is to setup a continuous integration server (using TeamCity Pro), so that whenever I checkin new code, I will get a new bui...

Deploying .jar file: Why can't I load icon files?

I'm exporting a simple java project that includes two directories; src and Icons. Icons is a directory that contains three .png files. I'm exporting to an executable .jar file using File -> Export. The export works properly and the .jar file contains the Icon directory. But I can't get the correct path for the .png files when the projec...