I am publishing a .Net 3.5 SP1 WPF application through ClickOnce. By default, when the user clicks on the published link the application gets installed and a menu and shortcut are added to the client's Start/All Programs menu. How can I prevent the shortcut/menu from being created? (users need to run the application solely by clicking ...
Describe the process you use to develop web applications at a not-so-high level, focusing on VC, bug tracking, QA, unit testing, deployment and anything else similar (minus the planning/client communication side of things). I'm new in this area, so my rough example (read: haven't used this process) is no doubt abit off, so to speak - po...
I need to implement some versioning for deployment for the app I support where I can copy the site to say c:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_v2 and then switch the virtual directory from c:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_v1. Is there a way to change the physical path for a virtual directory in IIS from the command line? Edit: i found that in IIS7 you can ...
I have an existing django web app that is in use. I have to radically migrate one key model in my design to a completely new design, but I want to cache all of the existing data for that model and migrate them to the new records in production when ready to deploy. I can afford to bring my website down for a few hours one night and do w...
I have made a setup and deployment project in C#, Now i have another windows update exe which i want to run and install successfully before it installs my project. I've packaged the exe with my project. How may i run that exe before? ...
Hello, currently my work-flow is as follows: Locally on a machine I maintain a git repo on each website I am working on, when the time comes to publish something I compress the folder and upload this single file to the production server via ssh then I decompress, test the changes a move the changes to the live folder and I get rid of t...
When you create a Setup project for a Windows/Console application, you find that there are two outputs. Setup.exe .msi What does setup.exe and .MSI do? Which one should be used for installation? I have seen that I can install the application using both. But Setup.exe is fairly small file compared to the .MSI file. Questions If I...
I am attempting to deploy my ASP.NET MVC application to a new environment and I'm running into this error: The view 'Login' or its master could not be found. The following locations were searched: ~/Views/Account/Login.aspx ~/Views/Account/Login.ascx ~/Views/Shared/Login.aspx ~/Views/Shared/Login.ascx I have verified that ~/Views/Acco...
From firsthand experience, it appears that ClickOnce only installs for the current user, and there is no option to install for all users. This is a problem because some users within the company need to use ClickOnce applications but do not have permissions to install applications (for security reasons). So far, the only solution we hav...
Hi I have a proprietary application and its war file is available to us. I need to basically add a jsp page to the current application. I was thinking i will write the independent jsp, java files build a war and add it to the proprietary war file. Or i will write the jsp, java files and add it to the same war. Can i make a new war...
I'm working on a web application using isapi_wsgi and django-pyodbc. I'd like to have a way to install all dependencies and push the files out to the webserver. Unfortunately, some of these are easier said than done. In particular, handling dependencies is a pain as some of them won't install correctly even under setuptools (pywin32 i...
Good morning, all. This is my first question on stackoverflow, so hopefully this isn't something that's been beaten to death and I haven't been able to find it. I'm developing an application that is going to be distributed shrinkwrapped. We have gotten the rights to distribute SQL Server 2008 Express Edition with our application, but ex...
I've developed a Powershell script to deploy updates to a suite of applications; including SQL Server database updates. Next I need a way to execute these scripts on 100+ servers; without manually connecting to each server. "Powershell v2 with remoting" is not an option as it is still in CTP. Powershell v1 with WinRM looks the mos...
I'm working on an application that uses MSMQ for interprocess communication, and I need the setup project to be able to install the service if it isn't already. I've checked around for information on making it a prerequisite, but so far I've been unsuccessful at finding this. Any ideas? ...
I have a two-project solution - one project contains my schemas and Biztalk orchestration, and the other contains a DLL that is referenced from my orchestration and does that actual work (it's shared code, so there's no chance I can just incorporate it into the biztalk assembly). The second assembly is added as a reference from the Bizta...
Hi, I have some Python Scripts which I would like to use from my VB.NET class library however instead of increasing the amount of files that I distribute is it possible to embed the script into my project/dll in Visual Studio and then run the script from the dll during my program runtime? Thanks for any help. Rob ...
I have an application consisting of an ASP.NET web application, a couple of Windows services, and a SQL Server 2005 database. This application is replicated at several sites, so that each site has a server containing all parts (web app, services, & DB). Currently the process for deploying updates is this: Database Script database ch...
Has anyone out there actually succeeded in creating a prerequisitie for o2003.msi? There are a lot of people out there asking about this, but I cannot find anyone who actually succeeded. I find some extremely complicated solutions where you are required to comple .cpp-files for which the soure may or may not be supplied. I even tried to...
Before I re-invent the wheel I wanted to see if a similar tool already existed. I want to automate the deployment of our various web sites, web services & multiple databases. I was thinking of writing a NAnt script and a simple GUI application which would enumerate the targets within the NAnt script and show a list of tasks which could...
Are there any limitations that I might face when using VS Setup Projects? I plan to use them, but am not sure if this would be a good idea. ...