deployment

Deploy midlet on Nokia mobile

I have written a midlet which asks username and password and connect to servlet running on tomcat to validate. When I run the midlet on the emulator provided by sun toolkit, first time it asks "This midlet wants to connect to http://... using airtime" and asks user permission. I want to know is there anyway to get rid of this? Once this ...

Problems deploying a web application

I am trying to deploy a web application to a remote server over which i have no control. If I use FTP deployment from visual studio, I manage to get the files onto the server, but when I point my browser to the server, it gives me the standand error page: Server Error in '/' Application. Runtime Error Description: An application...

Deploying DotNetNuke and separate ASP.NET Application together - Possible Issues?

I am making this in a proactive attempt to head off any potential problems which could arise from this. The situation is that we are developing an ASP.NET application for a client which will handle the online ordering from their customers. This application is going to be using the same database that their current WinForms application use...

powershell or msdeploy

I am running into a situation where I need to find a better approach to deploy web applications (asp.net to iis6..sorry ruby lovers :( and I was curious what some of you have done? I have seen products out there (Anthill?) but I am really looking for a way that my operations team can script a way to grab zip files (packaged code and asse...

Problems using git diff to create file list for deploy

I want to use something like the following command to create a tarball to deploy: tar cjvf ~/deploy.tar.bz2 `git diff --name-only 0abc 1def` The inner git diff command produces a list of files with relative including the relative path when i run it separately. I'm running into two problems though, I need to be able to auto escape sp...

How to fix ASP.NET error "The file 'nnn.aspx' has not been pre-compiled, and cannot be requested."?

I have a VS 2005 web site that I publish using "Publish Web Site", and I clear all the three checkboxes. I also have a deployment project that picks up the published files and creates an MSI. I then install the package on a separate test server. In other words, the whole site is pre-compiled. However, when I go to any .aspx file in a sp...

Database change management tools?

We are currently in the process of solidifying a database change management process. We run MySql 5 running on RedHat 5. I have selected LiquiBase as the tool because it's open source and allows us to expand its functionality later if needed. It also seems to be one of the few free projects that are still active. Has anyone here had any ...

Do you have to deploy the .pdb file with compiling under release?

Do you have to deploy the .pdb file with compiling under release? Why does it even compile a .pdb when you do a release build anyway? ...

What goes on a WebFrontend and what on the Application Server is Sharepoint 2007/WSS 3.0?

In Sharepoint Solutions I can specify the DeploymentServerType for deployment to be either ApplicationServer or WebFrontEnd. Unfortunately, Documentation on this is rather limited. I just wonder: When would I use which option? What if my Solution includes both Timer Jobs (which should go on the App Server?) and Web Parts (which need to ...

Disable clickonce application rollback

Hello, is there any way for disabling the rollback (getting the previous version) in an clickonce installed application? ...

Make visual studio deploy a folder's content without having to update it in the project

In my web project I often have a number of files in my app_data folder. These files can vary from time to time (example translation files get a new language, lucene index gets updated and gets a new file name etc). Visual studio only adds files to the deployment process if the files are seperately added to the project. So if a file has ...

Embedding Foxit PDF Reader into a webpage

I need to embed Foxit Reader (PDF reading software) into a web page. Does anybody know the correct classid and parameters to use in the following code: <object id="pdfReaderObj" classid="CLSID:XXXX" width="500" height="700"> <param name="Filename" value="/1234-56789-abc-123-3.pdf"> <param name="SRC" value="/1234-56789-abc-123-3...

How can I check the device platform before deployment in the .NET Compact Framework?

I've developed an application for Windows Mobile using Windows Mobile 6 Pro with CF 3.5 and I have some deployment questions. I'm targeting only Pocket PC and I don't want to let users install it on their smartphone (because it simply won't work). How can I check for the platform on which the user is installing the application and show...

Packaging to use to deploy cross-platform?

On windows applications are typically packaged as MSI, on Redhat Linux as RPM, what would be a best open source packaging method that could be used to deploy applications to all platforms including different flavors of unix and windows? Contents would include exes, unix binaries, java jar files, user data, even database scripts to be ru...

Silverlight Deployment

I have a Silverlight 2.0 site that works in dev. I have Copy Local set to true for System.Web.Silverlight (not sure if that is necessary). In production the web page loads, and the JS is sent to the client, but the movie is not loaded. Does the server need anything special installed? (it has 3.5 SP1) ...

How to create a database and populate it during setup

I would like to find a way to create and populate a database during asp.net setup. So, what I'm willing to do is: Create the database during the setup Populate the database with some initial data (country codes or something like that) Create the appropriate connection string in the configuration file I'm using .NET 3.5 and Visual St...

Scripting Visual Studio build, Clickonce deployment, Dotfuscator and Mage.

The process for releasing my application to the client is per the heading Build Clickonce deployment Obfuscating the main executable with Dotfuscator Signing the manifest and .application files with mage Zip for delivery I'd like to work on an opensource program to automate this as it uses a lot of time everytime a release is needed ...

Deployment prerequisites best practice

I have an application that requires .NET Framework 3. I am planning to deploy the application using a Setup Kit built by VS2005 deployment project. What is the best practice to include the last known .NET version (3.5 SP1 in my case) bootstrapper with the deployment package or include exactly what my project needs (.NET3)? Thank you f...

Can I get "WAR file" type deployment with ASP.NET?

Sometimes J2EE-savvy people look at ASP.NET and wonder, where's the support for deploying an app as a single unit? JSP/Servlet apps can be deployed as WAR files, with all pages, content, metadata, and code in that single archive. The war file can be versioned, easily moved around. There's an assurance that the entire app is contained...

Ant task for modern multithreaded archivators (7zip, winrar etc.)

We are using Ant Zip task, which is a bit of moral obsolete (low processing speed for big files). Can anyone point me out to mature ant task ready for production using that supports multithreaded for compression/decompression? First of all I wish to increase speed of processing archive files. I found 7ZIP Ant task, but it looks a bit ...