deployment

Deployments: MSI packages vs Scripts

I have been tasked with looking into our deployments, and seeing where they can be streamlined. Right now we have 4 different configurations (Debug/Dev, Test, Staging, Release) and 4 *.config files. We have a task that will overwrite app/web.config with the appropriate *.config pre-build time based on the active configuration. An MSI is ...

setup and installation issue

how to resume installation after restarting pc in c# in Setup and Deployment project? ...

Visual Studio 2010 Extension Deployment

I have created a VS Package Extension.I want to add a folder(contains sub folders) in the package that get packed and get installed with the package? How do I do this? ...

Blackberry: Access Blackberry desktop manager and install application programmatically..

Hello all, I want to know using my desktop application can i access Blackberry desktop manager (or) any USB interface programmatically to load(install) a blackberry application into blackberry device? Basically i want to load(install) any blackberry developed application to the device using my desktop application interface. Any help wo...

Not Accepting changes of already uploaded pages on server

Hello I found problem in uploaded project(ASP.NET) which i have done before...and after that i have made some changes latter on...but the web form and stylesheet changes are not accepting...so need solution for that... i found little bit about it on google...that i have to give some command on cmd...but dont knw about it... ...

sql reporting services deployment

I am a beginner user of SQL Reporting Services. I wrote a few reports. They all use stored procedures on my development SQL server. Now I want to deploy them into production, and repoint the datasets and datasources to my production SQL db. How best to do this? Can I just do a global change from development_server_name to production_ser...

How can I have Google App Engine clear memcache every time a site is deployed?

The title asks it all. The content on the site I'm building wont change very quickly at all and so Memcache could potentially store data for months except for when I put up an update. Is there a way to make it clear the cache every time I deploy the site? I'm using the Python runtime. Update 1 Using jldupont's answer I put the followin...

How should I create an automated deployment script?

I need to create some way to get a local WAR file deployed on a linux server. What I have been doing until now is the following process: Upload WAR using WinSCP. SSH into server using Putty. Move/Rename/Delete certain files folders to prepare for WAR explosion. Explode WAR. Send email notifying users of restart. Stop tomcat server. Us...

How to deploy a Delphi Soap Client (.EXE) on a Windows XP/Windows 2003?

I built a Delphi-7 Windows Application which uses some web services. The application is built in such a way that it does not require run-time DLLs. When I deployed it on a Windows 2003 server it fails while calling the web service. It results in error "Access violation at address 00c05269. Write of address 00c05269". I believe the reason...

How to deploy after a build with TeamCity?

I'm setting up TeamCity as my build server. So I have my project set up, it is updating correctly from subversion, and building ok. So what's next? Ideally, I'd like to have it auto deploy to a test server, with a manual deploy to a live/staging server. What's the best way to go about this? Since I am using C#/ASP.Net, should I a...

How would you compare IIS & Cassini as production servers?

I have an ASP.NET website which is running currently on IIS. Now I want to move that site to run on Cassini. What are the advantages of Cassini over IIS? What are its disadvantages? What are your experiences using Cassini as a production web-server? ...

Looking for literature on how to organize/deploy code for first open source projects (C/C++, Java, Python)

Hi, I am looking for documentation on how to commonly do the technical part of publishing the source of first open source projects, in particular with library-intensive stuff in C/C++, Java, Python. To give an example, if I built a C++ project with an IDE like Netbeans and various libraries like Xerces-C and Boost, I would like to find...

CakePHP Application Deployment

I am interested in finding out how folks are deploying their CakePHP applications. I have recently been approached about doing some freelance CakePHP development, which would be a nice opportunity for me to get some experience in the presentation tier (in my FT job I do Java EE development in the business and persistence tiers). My thou...

git autodeploy script within post-receive hook on ubuntu

I have an autodeploy bash script to get updated repo to /tmp in 'post-receive' hook on gitosis #!/bin/bash PWD=$PWD REPO_NAME=${PWD##/*/} cd /tmp git clone git@atom-desktop:$REPO_NAME But anytime when I push repository I got error like this: Host key verification failed. fatal: The r...

How do the different frameworks and cmses handle the dev > staging > production deployment problem?

It's a familiar problem: I've got some changes to push up the dev > staging > production chain, but in the mean time, content and users have been added to the database on the production server. I work with drupal a lot, and it's lousy at this because so much of the configuration winds up in the db. (There are some solutions that try to ...

How to reference different version of dll with MSBuild

I have a web application project which utilises a set of 3rd party dll's. The issue is that the dev/staging environment is 32bit, but production is 64bit. As such, we have to re-reference and build the solution each time we want to deploy. I am now wanting to automate this, but unsure how to go about it with MSBuild? All other dll's ar...

Create SQL Server Deployment script using database publishing wizard

I'm getting the following error when using the Database Publishing wizard to script a SQL Server Express database for deployment. I have googled for hours unsuccessfully. Anyone had this isssue or know how to solve it? Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occ...

Move files to a specific folder when run the setup file for VB.Net Application

Hi, I have created deployment package for VB.Net appolication and it runs fine. When setup is rnning, I want deployment package to move a file from bin folder to other specific folder. Please suggest, how can I move this file to specific folder. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Yogi ...

Database creation script - external parameters/settings

Question Summary: Is there a better method than the one posted below to implement the database-creation stage of an automated deployment? Background/Requirements: I am in the process of attempting to develop a coherent database version control process using an approach similar to this one. This question is specifically about the bas...

capistrano put() and upload() both failing

With capistrano, I am deploying a Rails application from Mac OS X 10.5 to CentOS 5.2 Note that deploy.rb and the server environment have not changed in over a year. There is a task within our deploy.rb file called upload: put(File.read( file ),"#{shared_path}/#{filename}", :via => :scp) This fails each and every time with the follow...