deployment

What do you do to your JavaScript code before deployment?

Do you have a step in your deployment process that minifies JS? Do you have any sort of preprocessor for your JavaScript that allows you to leave in comments and console.logs and then have them automatically stripped out? Is your JavaScript machine generated by GWT or Script#? Do you use ANT or another tool to automate deployment? I see...

Configuring the Package.xml for SQL Express ClickOnce Pre-Requisite install ?

I have a winform app being installed by ClickOnce and I need to be able to enable Remote Connections in sqlexpress by default. Also, I need to make sure the local user has access to the SQL instance. How do I edit the manifest file? My app is a part of a Merge Replication topology. I inherited the DAL and until I change it I cannot ...

Problem with long delays in .msi file.

I have a fairly simple desktop application that uses a .NET setup project (.msi file) to perform the installation. On the first installation, everything proceeds in a timely fashion with good feedback for the user. The problem occurs when the user is installing the latest version of the application over an old version on their machine....

Running .net based application without .NET Framework

Is there a way to run .net based applications without .net framework installed. Is there a way to do this. Is there a software that can achive this. Commercial software is also possible. Added: Has anyone any experience with VMWare thin client? ...

Exclude file from Visual Studio Deployment Project depending on Configuration

I have a solution with 3 projects: windows application, class library and setup project (Visual Studio 2008). Solution has 3 configurations: Debug, Release and Release with DLL. I want to include or exclude that DLL depending on current configuration. How can I do that? ...

SVN Repository Structure and Shared Assemblies

We are trying to restructure our SVN repository and include a lib folder under the trunk to house assemblies that the project depends on. I am curious to know how you guys are dealing with shared assemblies? Do you have multiple copies of them that span across different trunk lib folders? Do you have some kind of build process that will...

What to consider when migrating from hosted (saas) to individual deployments

The company I work for sells a hosted (ie software as a service) software system. We've now been asked if we can provide a local install of the software for a potential customer, sort of the reverse of what seems to be happening else where with people moving towards the hosted model. The question is what we should consider in providing t...

How do I deploy a folder using Visual Studio Deployment Product

I have a reporting tool written in VB. I have added a deployment project to my solution. One of the things I wish to deploy is a folder full of sub folders and files. How can I deploy this using the project please. I seem to be able to add files, project output and assembly. Any help would be appreciated. ...

If I develop a chat server using twisted, where can I deploy it?

1)If I develop a chat server using twisted, where can I deploy it? suppose i develop a webapplicati i can deploy it on any commertial server which allows hosting of web application. 2) But if i devlop a comet using twisted where can i deploy it? 3)what kind of server i need for this? In short i want to know where can i host my comet se...

ClickOnce deployment for solution containing several projects

I have a solution containing several projects, as well as some projects that get copied into subfolders relative to the main application. Is there any possibility to deploy this using ClickOnce? Or should i create a seperate project including references to my built files just for clickonce deployment? ...

Compiling views when publishing asp.net mvc project

Is is possible to compile asp.net mvc views into one assemply when publishing web project? ...

Does Visual Source Support SVN-like Post Commit Hooks?

I am forced to use Visual Source Safe at my current job. Yes I know, It's like a stick in the eye. But VSS won't go away, VSS is here to stay. I was wondering if there is any way to do something similar to Subversion's Post-Commit hooks in VSS? Coupled with a few deployment scripts, this would make our lives much, much easier. ...

ActionScript Project to AIR Application?

I'm not using the Flex libraries or anything from Flash. I'm developing a pure AS3 project in Flexbuilder which I would like to deploy as an AIR application. What are my options? What's easiest? I'm having trouble finding a straight answer here. ...

Program Deployment Failing

The project my team has been working on has reached a point where we need to deploy it to computers without the development environment (Visual Studio 2005) installed on them. We fixed the dependency issues we had at first, but we're still having issues. Now, once the installer is finished, our project gets stuck somewhere before enteri...

NLog does not write to file on Vista deployment

I am using NLog for the first time on a project. I want to log to a file, so I added a target writing to fileName="${basedir}/logs/${shortdate}.log". This creates/appends log info to a file in MyApplicationFolder/Logs/2009-06-08.log. Logging works fine on a Windows XP machine, in debug mode, and when I deploy using my msi installer. Howe...

"Official" Way to deploy Assemblies into the GAC?

I just wonder - if I need to deploy an assembly into the GAC, what is the "official" way of doing it? Currently we either manually drag/drop into the c:\windows\assembly folder or we use gacutil.exe. The first way is obviously not the good one (it's manual process after all), and gacutil is part of the SDK and not available per default ...

Hot deploy on JBoss - how do I make JBoss "see" the change?

I am developing a Java EE application that I deploy over and over again on a local JBoss installation during development. I want to speed up the build by hot deploying my application straight into [JBOSS]/server/default/deploy/myApp It seems to work - but there also seems to be a somewhat arbitrary delay between the hard deploy and when...

What method do you use to deploy ASP.Net applications to the wild?

Currently we deploy compiled ASP.Net applications by publishing the web site locally and emailing a zip file to the system administrator with a (usually) lengthy set of instructions for deployment. This is because the first time we deployed an ASP.Net application to a customer the dev and test IIS instance were the same, and we were una...

.NET - ClickOnce Install - Company Name and Application Name

What is the proper way to set the Company Name and Application Name in a ClickOnce Application? I have a set of projects in a solution called RecordNavigator. The GUI project is called RecordNavigator.Gui When I publish the app - I want the Start menu to have a folder called Tyndall Software and the application shortcut to be called ...

Vb.net code to check if a file (new version on google code) exists on the web?

Hi, I am working on a simple FOSS VB.net program that operates mostly in one window( http://code.google.com/p/slotshuffle/ link if anyone would like to help review the code or or wants to see for reference). I have searched online for ways to notify users of an updated version, and most of them involve changing the method of deployment...