deployment

how to create setup file dynamically

Hello, can you tell me how to create setup file dynamically in c#.net or VB.Net. Please reply me soon Samir ...

Automating Clickonce deployment with security ( certificates etc. ) such that client installs the application without any prompt.

Hi, I just read this --> Configuring ClickOnce Trusted Publishers and got it running at another computer on network. I deployed the application on network itself (i.e. \\abc\something ). Though I could not find certmgr.exe as part of Windows core component, as the article says ( ..so you will need to use the certificate management c...

404 Error for a deployed EAR file.

I am deploying a large application with approx - 12 WARs and JARs bundled in an EAR file. However I am unable to reach the application page from browser. A few things I have verified - Server log, I don't see any exception. It's a clean deploy. Server console shows that the application is deployed. All the app components are deployed ...

tomcat deletes exploded webapps

Each time I shut down Tomcat server, it deletes my exploded webapp. What do I have to do to stop that? It's really inconvenient constantly copying it again under the webapps dir. ...

Don't know how to build task 'gems:install'

hi all I am deploying my rails app to a linux server and i have some of the rake tasks missing inlcuding rake gems:install and rake db I am running rails 2.3.4 from GEM. Does anyone know why this is? How do i fix this ? can i update some how ? thanks alot richard moss ...

missing rake tasks ??

hi I have ran gem install rails and am running 2.3.4 but i am missing some rake tasks like 'db' and 'gems' if i run rake -T i get the following tasks. How can i get all the others ? rake apache2 # Build Apache 2 module rake clean # Remove compiled files rake clobber # Remove all generated files rake default # Bu...

How to deploy Java Communications API

I've been developing a java application with the eclipse RCP which requires the Java Communications API. Now as the javax.comm has to be setup first (install javax.comm.properties, win32comm.dll and comm.jar) my question ist: How should I deploy my application to make sure javax.comm will be setup on the user's machine? Should I provide ...

Microsoft Robotics Development Studio simulation project deployment

I am currently working on a project in Microsoft Robotics Development Studio, and I am having a little trouble deploying the solution for general use. My problem is this. I am making a simulation, so I need to deploy the simulation engine along with my project. This is dependent on the Ageia PhysX engine, DirectX, and the Microsoft XN...

Vista Schedule Task From Setup

I'm deploying a C# application using the Setup Wizard project in Visual Studio 2008. What is the simplest way for me to have Windows schedule my application to run at regular intervals (e.g. every 8 hours)? I prefer if this scheduling would happen during the application's installation to simplify setup for the end-user. Thanks! ...

How to build for iPhone 3.0 SDK?

Hi, I'm pretty new to iPhone. My dev env is setup, XCode has just two profiles: iPhone device 3.1.2 (base sdk) and iphone simulator 3.1.2, either one with release and debug. I fear I will run into problems now, if I ad hoc deploy to < 3.1.2 phys devices. How can I build for 3.0 base sdk only? Kind regards PS: stackoverflow is a great s...

Custom Errors not Forwarding on ASP.NET MVC Site

On my site, a broken link throws the default, page not found error. In the web.config I have turned on CustomErrors and forward 404 errors to a custom message. On my dev box it works, on the host it does not. Any ideas? ASP.NET MVC 1.0, SQL 2005, IIS 6 host (ya, I wish it was IIS7 - but they want to charge me to move the site). Thanks...

Creating installers for complex cross-platform programs

I'm sketching an application deployment process for a bunch of relatively complex desktop applications. We have both native and Java apps, so the deployment must be able to check for existence of the JRE and install it if needed. Some of the apps depend on special hardware, so the deployment must also be able to launch the necessary driv...

Shared add-in installation via Group Policy

I Have a shared add in (not VSTO) which I need to deploy via group policy to all users on the target machines. My addin (targeting outlook specifically) accepts a command line switch which is the path of an intranet application so it can communicate with it - this all works fine on my development machine and also on a different machine ...

Deploy web applications and windows services using TFS 2010

Just went from TFS 2008 to 2010 at a client site and now wondering what happened to the TFSBuild.proj files from the TeamBuildTypes folder. I've already got the builds and drops working and now I need to get the old deployments working again. We used to do this with AfterBuild targets in the TFSBuild.proj. That mechanism seems to have mo...

How to add folder struture in web deployment project

Hello, I am trying to create a web deployment project for a web appplication that requires a directory structure to be created somewhere in the file system (user choice). This structure could be placed anywhere and does not need to be inside the project folder. How can I set the project to allow the user to define the root where this d...

ASP.NET : App_Code Class files not getting updated after modification

I have an ASP.NET web site where i am having App_code folder in which i put my class files (Business objects). Its running fine.But when i made some changes in the class (Added few proprties /Methods) and uploaded to the webserver (in production) its not getting affected in the live site.But this works pretty good when runs in local(so t...

War deployment on Tomcat takes ages

I have a Grails application, built to a war file (~30mb). When I attempt to deploy the war file on Tomcat 6 via the application manager, it takes upwards of 10 minutes to deploy, or hangs indefinitely. When it hangs I can restart Tomcat and the app is usually deployed, however sometimes I have to repeat the process. I've also noticed tha...

What should we do when the buildserver is treated like a goldmine?

A year ago I started to create some automated builds on our build machine (TFS2008). Not so much for combining with full scale TDD (we still have a lot of old legacy code), but for being able to detect at an early stage if builds got broken. Another objective was also to minimize the packaging/deployment work. This has been working quit...

How to deploy: database, source and binary changes in 1 patch?

Hello There, I'm part of a development team that works on many CMS based projects, using systems like Joomla and Drupal. In our development process, all of our code changes are managed inside of Git. At the end of a sprint, we create a DIFF that we can apply via patch to live site. The problem is that most of the time, the changes inc...

.Net Application Hangs on Unpatched XP Machines

I'm developing a .Net 2.0 application using DevStudio 2005 and running on a Windows XP machine. On my machine, which is up to date with all the automatic updates, the release version runs OK. If I run the application on a vanilla XP SP2 machine (i.e. freshly installed OS with no updates) it hangs with 99% CPU usage. It's hanging at the p...