deployment

First time installation / deployment on clients machine

Hi, We have a silverlight ASP .NET web application which needs to be deployed on client's server along with Sql Server database. Once they deploy on their server, many workstation can access it and run silverlight client. I was thinking to create a small deployment project, add necessary script files to the resources, and create an msi...

how to put radio buttons in windows installer - deployment project?

I've a deployment project of windows installer, with some of prerequisites. I want to perform some operations while installing the product, for that I need to put 2 radio buttons on installer setup project, do anyone tell me how can I alter setup screens with new controls provided on canvas ? ...

Determine classes used by a Java application

How would you determine the classes (non Sun JDK classes) loaded / unused by a Java application? Background: I have an legacy Java webstart application that has gone through a lot of code changes and now has a lot of classes, most of which are not used. I would like to reduce the download size of the application by only deploying class...

VS 2008 Express - clickOnce question

Hi, I have the VS Express 2008 where there is only ClickOnce deployment option. I need my app to be simple ran by clicking on the exe file without any installation. I have found out that after deleting both manifests and icon /which is always in the output directory even though its embedd with "Do not copy" option/ it works well. Is it o...

How are very large JEE web sites structured?

A best practice question - how are very large websites best structured with Java. I'm interested in knowing how the deployments themselves are structured - Some possible answers: A single Ear - with/without session sharing in between the constituent wars? Multiple Wars - with/without session sharing? Multiple modules that are asse...

How to do deployment for php application

I am currently developing a php-application for a charity organization and I am now in the stage of defining the deployment practices. Our application is using both Zend Framework and Doctrine. The application will be rolled out to different servers, each with a different configuration file. The machines are both Windows and Linux (but ...

Devenv deployment parameters

I have a report project that I want to script deploying to a development server. I need to just change the TargetServerUrl in the project properties. Is there a way to do this? i.e. &devenv.exe RSReports.sln /project Reports\Reports.rptproj /deploy maybe => properties:TargetServerUrl=http://myserver/ReportServer ...

Free install system with GUI

Hello. Is there any free install system with a GUI interface? I found one - Advanced Installer, but free edition is too limited, I even can't show EULA. Other free tools like NSIS, WiX... are scripting only. I got no extra time to dig into new scripting language, or whatever time consuming activities. Currently I'm using default Visual...

Using iPhone OS 3.0 function calls in place of deprecated 2.2 function calls on 2.2 devices

If I set the Base + Active SDK of an iPhone app to 3.0 and the Deployment Target to 2.2, can I use the new versions of functions on 2.2 devices? For example, UITableViewCell now requires an image to be set using [cell.imageView setImage:image], whereas in 2.2, you'd call [cell setImage:image]. Will using the new [cell.imageView setImage...

How to get assembly version of a project in a visual studio 2008 deployment project

Hello. I have a deployment project in visual studio 2008 that installs several C# projects. Among other things, I'd like it to write projects assembly version to registry. Is there a way to automatically find out whats the projects assembly version (written in AssemblyInfo.cs) and write that as value of a registry property? If not, is...

How to ensure that a desktop program works correctly after a clean-slate installation?

Motivation — I had a new version of my Cocoa application ready that worked fine on all beta testers' machines. So I released it. Turns out that a crucial feature simply doesn't work on anybody else's computer. Yikes! Yes, read that again: I released software that didn't work. Cause — Users who had used previous versions my app (read: al...

NANT process time out after 1800 sec

Hi Guys, I am using NANT to deploy the code to servers using s/w CCtray. sometimes I get this error but looks like the vsts is up according to the administrator. He can't figure out why it is saying this error and neither do I. Because it doesn't log any other information other than this. DOes anyone has faced this kind of error before a...

WCF RIA Silverlight deployment issues

It seems the world is awash with people having problems deploying RIA WCF services, and now I'm one too. I've already tried a bunch of things, but to no avail. I need WCF RIA to support a Silverlight 3 application I've built. The short story is, using the new WCF RIA services (Nov 09?) I open VS 2008, create new project (silverlight a...

Cannot deploy Aspx website, App_code folder classes become unreadable

I have recently finished creating my website, I have therefore come to the stage where I have to deploy it to a live server however when copying across, all of the App_Code, App_Data and Bin folder items become unaccessible. All of the classes are fine when I run on my dev server but once the files go across (exactly as they are) I can n...

Including Source in Archive File

I was considering including the source code in my archive file (EAR, JAR, WAR) so we could see what the deployed application looks like. This will obviously make the archive much bigger. Does the size of the archive file affect performance on the application server at all? Is this a good idea or not? ...

Managing deployment and configuration tasks in Scrum

Just wondering how others out there are managing tasks not directly related to fulfilling user stories such as server configuration and application deployment (in a web application environment). Previously I’ve included these activities within the task breakout of a product backlog item but the effort tends to get lost amongst other task...

how can i deploy my war file created in eclipse to internet so that i can access the site from another computer.

how can i deploy my war file created in eclipse to internet so that i can access the site from another computer. i have created an aplication which uses a jdbc connection to db2 database.the database server is running on my pc.and i have deployed the war on was ce server.i can connect to it through http://localhost:8080/LimsWeb but i w...

how can i deploy my war file created in eclipse to internet so that i can access the site from another computer.

how can i deploy my war file created in eclipse to internet so that i can access the site from another computer. i have created an aplication which uses a jdbc connection to db2 database.the database server is running on my pc.and i have deployed the war on was ce server.i can connect to it through http://localhost:8080/LimsWeb but i w...

ASP.NET deployment: How to avoid losing session state when updating code?

How do you work-around the fact that sessions are dropped every time you deploy certain code files to an ASP.NET website? Sometimes we need to deploy a crucial fix in the middle of the day but don't want to boot off all our users for it. ...

Deploy war on Tomcat without the war name in the URL

I build a war file called myapp.war and deploy it on Tomcat. I've changed the port from 8080 to 80 so I can then get to it at example.com/myapp (where example.com is my host). How can I get configure the application so when I go to example.com, it shows my app? I don't want to just redirect from example.com to example.com/myapp - I do...