deployment

Visual Studio - Resource (CSS/JS/Images) sharing between web projects

Hi there. I'm looking to share a common pool of web resources (css/js/images) across multiple web projects. What I'm hoping to do, is create one project file for the resources, e.g.: Common.WebResources, and include it in the Visual Studio solutions for Site1 & Site2. The part I'm looking to solve is setting it up to work with the VS D...

Visual Studio: Setup Project - !Condition

In a visual studio setup project, how do I get the inverse of a condition? Specifically, I am looking to run a script if a file does not exist (ie the Exists condition is false). ...

How to Deploy a Drupal Site on a Web Farm ?

Hi, I would like to know how I should deploy a Drupal site when I'm using three servers? Is it possible to deploy it with a Drupal module or something? If it is, how does that work? Thanks. update: I would like to know about the deployment of files and the configuration of the servers. ...

IsValidLocale returns FALSE - how to overcome this?

When run on a Spanish version of Windows XP my program invokes LANGID langId = (LANGID) MAKELANGID( LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_DEFAULT ); LCID locale = MAKELCID( language, SORT_DEFAULT ); BOOL isValid = IsValidLocale( locale, LCID_INSTALLED ); IsValideLocale() return FALSE when asked about English locale. Obviously something must be tuned...

.NET DLL versions and xcopy deployment

I have been deploying several programs into one folder using XCOPY deployment to a shared network drive as it makes it extremely easy for me to update in house programs. These have a shared DLL NNC.dll. It doesn't often get modified but has done recently so when I went to deploy I couldn't overwrite as it is a breaking change. If I chan...

How to properly force a Blackberry Java application to install using Loader.exe

I want to include the Application Loader process in a software installation, to ensure that users get our software installed on their Blackberry by the time our installer software finishes. I know this is possible, because Aerize Card Loader (http://aerize.com/blackberry/software/loader/) does this. When you install their software, if y...

Handling multiple sites via git

Here's the situation: there are 9 sites, they all share a similar codebase, but there are differences: Type A: 2 of them could be considered "social" sites (events, news, profiles, login) Type B: 3 of them are your regular sites (events module, news, etc) Type C: 4 of them are small "brochure" type sites (just pages and a contact form)...

Upgrade an existing application to include ClickOnce

Is it possible to introduce ClickOnce functionality to an existing application? The scenario is: Version 1.0 is already installed on client premises. I would like to send them a new setup package which will upgrade to 1.1, which has ClickOnce functionality, thereby making future upgrades "effortless". Barring that, are there any other ...

Problem deploying Python program (packaged with py2exe)

I have a problem: I used py2exe for my program, and it worked on my computer. I packaged it with Inno Setup (still worked on my computer), but when I sent it to a different computer, I got the following error when trying to run the application: "CreateProcess failed; code 14001." The app won't run. (Note: I am using wxPython and the mult...

Java Deployment Toolkit - beforeRedirect hook?

I'm using the Java Deployment Toolkit to deploy a java applet in an iframe. javaDeploy.js automatically redirects the iframe to the java download page if the users browser does not have the plugin installed however I'd like to give some kind of notice to the user before this happens as its a little weird just to see the java download p...

How to build QTcore4.dll without dependency to MSVCx80.dll?

Dears, I have a windows screensaver that I want to recompile using the QT libraries, so that I can make available for more platforms. I am facing problems with the deployment on Vista and XP. I compile my screensaver statically with MT, and run the dependency checker. The results are: MyScreensaver.SCR needs several DLLS, QTCORE4.DLL ...

How do I add CRRedist2008_x86.msi to Visual Studio Deployment Project?

I need to add CRRedist2008_x86.msi to my deployment project as it is a requirement for my app. However, I want it to run automatically. I don't want it to be just added as a file and then the user has to click on it for it to run after my app installs. Can someone guide my on how to do this? It seems like it should be very easy but ...

ClickOnce deployment with Crystal Reports prerequisite.

I have a .NET Winforms app (created in VS2005) that I deploy using ClickOnce. On one of the forms I have a Crystal Reports viewer control for the user to view the reports, but in order to use that in the app I have to include the the Crystal Reports XI Release 2 prereq which they install prior to installing the app. This basically instal...

The proper way to deploy a Hibernate-based J2EE app to a remote server..

I have a pretty monstrous Java app in development here. As of now, it's only ever been deployed on my locally installed Tomcat/MySQL setup. For completeness, the app is an online game server written using Spring, Hibernate with MySQL currently on the backend. Now, I can easily package up the WAR and get that on the remote server.. The ...

ClickOnce start time from Start Menu link

I have big application (190 MB in 600 files) deployed using clickonce 3.5. After installation of this application i run it from link located in Start Menu but it takes over 4-12 sec to show my Splash Screen. When this application is run from .exe file Splash screen is visible after 1 sec. My application don't use automatic updates (Clic...

Can I just drop vjslib.dll into the /bin directory of my application ?

I am in the middle of a production deployment. Unfortunately I am deploying to a tightly controlled environment. It is unlikely I'm going to get clearance tonight to run the full Visual J# redistributable EXE. Our app is currently throwing errors saying that it can't find the assembly "vjslib.dll". Can I just drop this into the bin o...

Running a J2EE/Grails app as a windows desktop application

I'd like to do the following but am not sure if it can be done and if so how. Create a Grails application on my local machine and test it. Then somehow package it up along with the Jetty server, and install it on a users desktop. The installer would put an icon in the start menu that would launch the server and load the start page in eit...

How to get the last changed Revision per file

Hi, for our build process i need to know the "last changed" Revision of each file in a certain repository. Any Ideas? Kind regards, Flo ...

Automated deployment of files to multiple Macs

We have a set of Mac machines (mostly PPC) that are used for running Java applications for experiments. The applications consist of folders with a bunch of jar files, some documentation, and some shell scripts. I'd like to be able to push out new version of our experiments to a directory on one Linux server, and then instruct the Macs t...

Referencing shared DLLs in VS Deployment project

I write programs used internally by our company. I've created several support DLLs that I reference in many projects. (a generic data access helper for example) Instead of having a copy of "datatools.dll" in every program directory (seems to be default behavior) I would like to have one copy that can be referenced by many programs. Kinda...