HI All, We have a .Net 2.0 application which has a MySQL backend. We want to be able to deploy MySQl and the DB when we install the application and im trying to find the best solution. The current setup is to copy the required files to a folder on the local machine and then perform a "NET START" commands to install and start the mysql ...
It's really quite annoying as they are not part of the project. ...
Is it possible to deploy a native Delphi application with ClickOnce without a stub C# exe that would be used to launch the Delphi application? The same question applies to VB6, C++ and other native Windows applications. ...
Where I work, the design and development departments are totally separated, however we (the design department) are responsible for managing the CSS for our sites. Typically, new CSS needs to be released to the production server far more often than new website code. Because of this, we are deploying the CSS separately, and it lives outsid...
I have built a web page which contains a Crystal Report built using the Crystal libraries included in Visual Studio 2008. It 'works on my machine' but when deployed to the web server the icons (Export, Print etc) on the Crystal Report toolbar do not display or work. Just seeing the 'red X' where the button image should be and clickin...
When I build my ASP.NET web application I get a .dll file with the code for the website in it (which is great) but the website also needs all the .aspx files and friends, and these need to be placed in the correct directory structure. How can I get this all in one directory as the result of each build? Trying to pick the right files out ...
Seems like there are so many different ways of automating one's build/deployment that it becomes difficult to parse through all the different scenarios that people support in tutorials on the web. So I wanted to present the question to the stackoverflow crowd ... what would be the best way to set up an automated build and deployment sys...
We need to regularly synchronize many dozens of binary files (project executables and DLLs) between many developers at several different locations, so that every developer has an up to date environment to build and test at. Due to nature of the project, updates must be done often and on-demand (overnight updates are not sufficient). This...
I'm using a deploy project to deploy my ASP.net web application. When I build the deploy project, all the .compiled files are re-created. Do I need to FTP them to the production web server? If I do a small change do I need to copy all the web site again? ...
I'm trying to create a standard way of rolling out web applications for our company. Currently we do it with zip files, vbscript/javascript, and manual some steps. For thick client installs we generate MSI installers using Wise/Wix. We don't create installers currently for websites as in general they are just xcopy deploy. However ...
If you're familiar with the phrase "build one to throw away", well, we seem to have done that; we’re reaching the limits of version 1 of our online app. It's time to clean things up by: Re-organizing code and UI Unifying UI processes Adding more functionality Building for the future Modifying our database structure to handle all of the...
We currently deploy web applications by creating a database and running SQL scripts through query analyzer. Then we copy the output from "publish website" and set up that website in IIS. We have seen websetup in visual studio, but that part seems to be thinly documented. For example, we are not clear how to ask the user for IP and pas...
I've been looking for this information for my commercial desktop product, with no avail. Specifically, what I'm look for, is deployment statistics of the .NET framework for end-users (both granny "I'm just browsing the internet" XP, and high-end users, if possible), and in the commercial/business sector. Edit: Other than the data point...
I'm working on VS 2005 and something has gone wrong on my machine. Suddenly, out of the blue, I can no longer build deployment files. The build message is: ERROR: An error occurred generating a bootstrapper: Invalid syntax. ERROR: General failure building bootstrapper ERROR: Unrecoverable build error A quick Google search brings up t...
Is it possible to place an application using vsto if the office is not installed? It doesn't appear to be so, but I was wondering if anyone had a work-around. ...
I am developing a .NET WinForms application which relies on user.config to store various useful settings such as intranet web service URLs. We would like to make it possible to import custom initial settings as part of the installation. The use case for this is if a company has 100 machines they want to install the software on, and the...
I'm working in a team environment where each developer works from their local desktop and deploys to a virtual machine that they own on the network. What I'm trying to do is set up the Visual Studio solution so that when they build the solution each projects deployment is handled in the post-build event to that developers virtual machin...
Hello, fellow anthropoids and lily pads and paddlewheels! I'm developing a Windows desktop app in C#/.NET/WPF, using VS 2008. The app is required to install and run on Vista and XP machines. I'm working on a Setup/Windows Installer Project to install the app. My app requires read/modify/write access to a SQLCE database file (.sdf) and ...
We have various php projects developed on windows (xampp) that need to be deployed to a mix of linux/windows servers. We've used capistrano in the past to deploy from windows to the linux servers, but recent changes in architecture and windows servers left the old config not working. The recipe works fine for the linux deployment, but ...
In our development environment each developer has their own dev server. Often times they do not actually develop on that server but develop from their local machine, deploy to their dev server, and then attach with the remote debugger to do debugging. My question is; how can I use MSBuild to execute a different set of tasks for each us...