deployment

Build an installer for .NET app that can run on Windows and OS X?

I am surprised I could not find this question already asked, so if I simply missed it please notify promptly. I need to write a very small, fairly simple application in .NET that will be downloaded by end-consumers and installed on their system. Silverlight's sandbox model will not work - it has to be a full-on downloaded, installed exe...

Simplifying publishing multiple ASP.NET Web Site Projects in VS2008

I have a solution in Visual Studio 2008 that contains three projects: a C# Library and two ASP.NET Web Sites (call them A and B). Web Site A depends on the library, and Web Site B depends on Web Site A. This means that if I make a change to the library project, I have to build it, then publish A, and then publish B. Similarly, if I chan...

Deployment: GWT vs. Silverlight

I'm in the early planning phase for a project and determining whether to use Silverlight or the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). There are obviously a lot of things to consider, but this question is specifically concerning deployment. This application is intended for intranets; i.e. it is not a hosted website and is intended to be deployed at...

Problem deploying Telerik RAD Controls for ASP.NET AJAX (UpdatePanel)

Should we be able to just reference the Telerik DLLs within our project, set the Output Local to TRUE and be done with it? Things work perfectly on our development machines where we installed the entire Telerik Control Suite but when we deploy, we have a problem in which Telerik controls within UpdatePanels don't seem to be firing event...

Create DMG file

I am developing an application in Cocoa. I need to create a DMG file to install my application like Adium (which provides a nice UI to drag the app file to Application folder). Is there a tool for this? ...

.NET setup project and uninstaller

I have created a VS setup project for my app. It install the app to user-defined location and creates several shortcuts in the start menu. It also creates an entry in Control Panel/Add or Remove Programs that can be used to uninstall the application. I would like to know if there is a way to create a start menu entry (next to other entr...

Difference in deploy and redeploy

Hello, Could anyone please tell me, what the meaning of the word "Deploy" and "Redeploy" in context of Tomcat in the following line: ServletConfig parameters won't change for as long as this servlet is deployed an running. To change them, you'll have to redeploy the servlet Thanks very much in advance. ...

Reference assembly located on Network Share in ASP.Net

Where I'm at we have a large number of programs that can run that all use features from a set of assemblies located on a network share: things like writing to a common systems log, DB connection strings, some common business objects and functions, etc. We like this setup, because it makes it easy to deploy bug fixes and new features: ju...

Deploy Registry Change

What is the best way to deploy a HKCU registry change for anyone who logs onto the machine. Someone mentioned to me Active Setup...but I am not sure. ...

SharePoint Deployment from one server to another

i am new to sharepoint. I have few queries on sharepoint deploy ment. it would be nice of you if any one clarify me on these queries. i have to deploy one sharepoint application/site from one server to another server. there are lot of file like .ascx(created through asp.net), .dll webparts, and workfolwsetc present in the application. h...

BlackBerry HelloWorld deploys in Eclipse under 8130 simulator but not 950

I followed the steps in www.thinkingblackberry.com/archives/21 If I pick the 4.5.0 JDE with the 8130 simulator, I can navigate to the HelloWorld icon, click it, the app runs, I can hit breakpoints, etc. I then switch to the 4.7.0 JDE, erase the simulator files (Blackberry | Erase Simulator File | Erase All), and change the simulator fr...

How do I add files to a windows mobile device when deploying it?

I have a number of images and a CSV data file that I want to deploy to a windows mobile device along with my application. I'm using Visual Studio 2008 and C#. I've added a "Content" folder to my project which contains the bmp images and the CSV file. When running my program on the emulator (by hitting F5) only the app is deployed, and n...

Building iPhone app for earlier iPhone OS versions

I want to build my iPhone app to work on iPhone OS 2.0 up to 3.0. According to this page, you simply need to set the "Base SDK" to 3.0 and the "iPhone OS deployment target" to 2.0. My question is, when actually building the application, which "Active SDK" should I choose? I get the following choices: 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.2.1 3.0 My guess...

How to avoid user interruption when deploying a website on IIS 6.0/.NET 3.5

We deploy our websites as a single MSI package. We deploy to IIS 6.0 (Windows 2003) and they run on .NET 3.5. The problem I have is that when we upgrade to a new version of our websites, users may be half way with a long-running task. What I need is the following: How to stop users from starting new requests Let users with long-running...

Setup and Deployment of a WPF application

Hi! I'm currently developing a small WPF application using a file database (SQLCe). Since I'm near release of the product and I've had no experience with setup and deployment I would like to hear your thoughts around this subject. The application is small and the updates that I will make is minor database changes (such as alter tables...

Can you set up Visual Studio to deploy to a Virtual Machine?

Hey SO: I have a virtual machine running windows 2003 server. It is on a separate machine on the network to reserve computer resources on my dev machine. Is it possible to configure visual studio 2008 so when I click "deploy" it will deploy the solution to the virtual machine instead of my development machine? Edit I should note that ...

How to apply database updates after deployment?

i know this is an often asked question on these boards. And usually the question has been about how to manage the changes being made to the database before you even get around to deploy them.Mostly the answer has been to script the database and save it under sourcecontrol and then any additional updates are saved as scripts under version...

Configuration Error on custom config section -- could not find the file specified?

Hi -- This has worked fine locally for months and just broke on deployment to the server (discountasp). I'm developing with .net 3.5 and asp.net mvc. I've previously successfully hosted asp.net mvc applications on this same account (but without the config section). I have a custom config section set up in my web.config file that's caus...

No 'Home Site' attribute has been provided for 'Office2003PIA'.

I have Office 2003 PIA as dependency in my setup project. when I build my project I'm getting following Warning. Warning 1 No 'HomeSite' attribute has been provided for 'Office 2003 PIAs', so the package will be published to the same location as the bootstrapper. ...

Is it possible to deploy a Web Part from Visual Studio 2008 to a (virtual) MOSS 2007 server on my network?

Hi SO: I have a virtual machine running windows 2003 server running MOSS 2007. This virtual machine is not being run on my dev machine, but on a different machine on the network. I can ping both the host and guest OS from my dev machine. I just need to know, if it is possible, how to configure visual studio 2008 to deploy the web parts/...