I have an app which uses SQL Express and my customers are mainly people who don't have a dedicated IT staff, so wouldn't know how to run scripts. So the deployment and upgrades has to be easy. The deployment part is all figured out. What I need to know is when version 2 of the product comes out and its time to update the database structu...
Hello, I'm faced with a Windows 2003 server that doesn't have the Computer Browser service, and I have no idea how to get it back. The Server has "Run Advertised Programs" in the control panel, so that indicates SMS (MS Systems Management Server) may have been used to lock down the server. But we don't have SMS (we've ingerited this se...
I have a setup where I want to deploy a website from our SVN repository to our staging server. In order to do this today I log in to the staging server (W2k machine) via remote desktop and run the following batch script: set SVN_SSH=plink.exe -i privatekey.ppk -l webstaging svn export --force svn+ssh://[email protected]/t...
How can I deploy a C# Visual Studio 2005 project so that I can run the application in another system? My project has a few dependencies and files that have to be integrated while deploying the project. What is the best way to handle this? ...
I've finally managed to create a Netbeans project out of an old standalone (not Web-) Java application which consisted only out of single .java sources. Now I have basically two questions regarding Netbeans Subversion interaction and application deployment: Do you check in all the Netbeans project files into the repository, normally? I...
I have started to think in RoR as an option to develop my applications, but I don't know much about it. I usually deploy my applications to Windows XP or Vista based PCs and use SQL Server as database. Which are the system requirements to develop a Ruby on Rails application? ...
Assumption: I'm very new to the Continuous Integration space. What is the method I should use for Extracting, Testing, Compiling, Deploying an ASP.NET (.NET 3.5) application. Step 1) Sometimes I would like to pull the latest source from TFS, and sometimes Subversion. Step 2) Run all tests. (I am currently using MbUnit) Step 3) If al...
I have a site running on django, (but the question applies to anything, php, etc) Currently I'm using unison to deploy my changes, and I (kinda used to) love it because before that I was doing it manually!! Now, as I'm getting my feet wet with git, I'm starting to love it! And I'm thinking if maybe I should use it instead of unison to ...
I am trying to get a grasp on how to handle updates to a live, functioning ASP.NET (2.0 or greater) Application while there are users on the site. For example, suppose SO is an ASP.NET Web Application project. The project code compiles down to the single .DLL in the BIN folder. Now, there are constantly users on SO, so what would happen...
I have a web client and a EJB project, which I created with Eclipse 3.4. When I want to deploy it on Jboss 5.0.1, I receive the error below. I searched a lot but I wasn't able to find a solution to this. 18:21:21,899 INFO [ServerImpl] Starting JBoss (Microcontainer)... 18:21:21,900 INFO [ServerImpl] Release ID: JBoss [Morpheus] 5.0.1....
Hi folks, Is there any easy way to Deploy/Publish a website written in asp.net ? And what is the difference between deploy and publish ? ...
I want to fail the build if the deployment project issues a warning about missing dependencies. For example the following is a Warning, personally I think this should be an error as it causes the install to fail as the item missing is a dependency of a custom action. WARNING: Unable to find dependency 'MyBaseAssembly' (Signature='(null...
I have an application which is used internally and uses WCF for communication between client and server portions, however it will soon need deploying to sites where server names are different. The WCF services are hosted as a Windows service using the netTcp binding. At the moment, the addresses of the services are specified using the Ad...
Hi in .NET on my local machine I have a reference to a DLL on my local assembly folder. I was wondering how I can "package" this dll with the deployment of my website? When I deploy on the staging serer it is complaining that it does not have that dll. (It is not in the GAC of the staging server). Thank you. ...
I'd like to put revision number on main page of webapp, how can i do that using maven? P.S. Its two part question, how to get revision number and how to write it into selected file in the project. ...
I have added icon.ico file (custom made) in my VS project for smart device application. I also created a CAB installer project. The icon.ico is supposedly automatically appears as a shortcut icon, but it doesn't work for me. Do I have to add icon.ico to my CAB installer project manually? ...
Hi, I work as an in-house developer for a manufacturing company. We make software for the manufacturing process, not really control software, more like process flow. We are using a Scrum process to develop the software, albeit tailored to fit with our team and environment, and this is working quite well. We're coming to the end of a s...
Hi all, I'm struggling with a deployment issue which leaves me completely lost. It goes like this: I have a Visual Studio Deployment project which installs an app - some assemblies each compiled to target .NET Framework 2.0. I have recently strong named them all (because one of the assemblies is a "Shared Add-In" for MS Word and MS Outl...
How do I find out the fully qualified name of my assembly such as: MyNamespace.MyAssembly, version=1.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089 I've managed to get my PublicKeyToken using the sn.exe in the SDK, but I'ld like to easily get the full qualified name. ...
How do I place the shortcut icon in the cab file? Can anyone shed some light on this? I searched online and found no info about this at all, except a claim that the icon used in the smart device project is automatically pulled into a cab. Well, it isn't so. It got pulled in once and after that when i CHANGED the icon it still shows an ol...