Hi, I have developed a Windows CE 4.2 Application in VS 2003. When i deploy the CAB file in the device having X86 has its processor, a short cut for the application is created in Start >> Program >> Application. But I want a short cut for the application on the desktop. I modified the INF file to add a new shortcut that points to the ...
In a project I am working on, we have an ongoing discussion amongst the dev team - should the production environment be deployed as a checkout from the SVN repository or as an export? The development environment is obviously a checkout, since it is constantly updated. For the production, I'm personally for checking out the main trunk, s...
Is there any utility that will copy the "official" build of a windows forms app from a central network share and launch it (from a client desktop)? I want to make sure users get the latest version when I update the binaries on the central network share. ClickOnce is user un-friendly so I'm looking for something else... ...
Right now our test and production databases are on the same server, but with different names. Deploying has meant editing Web.config to change all the connection strings for the correct database. A step which I forget all too frequently... We've finally created a new database server for testing, and I'm moving the databases over... b...
When i deploy a rails application in production mode, it appends a date-time string as a query param to the end of all the static asset urls. This is to prevent browsers using old-out of date cahed copies of the assets after I redeploy the application. Is there a way to make rails use the old time stamps for the assets that have not ch...
I'm a big fan of Capistrano but I need to develop an automated deployment script for a Java-only shop. I've looked at Ant and Maven and they don't seem to be well geared towards remote administration the way Capistrano is - they seem much more focused on simply building and packaging applications. Is there a better tool out there? ...
Let's say that you have a product that is written in Visual Studio and you provide your customers and users with an installer for that product. Then, you have some minor changes that you want to deploy to your users; you don't want your users to have to go through an uninstall process, backing up the configuration and then reinstalling ...
I have created a common library at work, and it is installed in the GAC on our test server. I've recently updated it and I want all of our applications to be using the update. I created a publisher policy assembly and installed it in the GAC along with the update, but when a web app loads Leggett.Common, 1.0.0.0, it isn't redirected to L...
What is the best procedure for deploying web apps that rely on cron jobs (for cache maintenance, db updates, ...)? For things like DB schema changes, there are tools such as DBDeploy for managing the changes between versions, but how do you automate updates to the crontab? I know that the actual cron files are stored in /var/spool/ b...
When deploying a ready to use erlang application I don't want the user to Find the right erl release on the internet. Install the erl vm unzip and decide a location for the beam files (with the application) read a readme modify anything that even looks like a config file I have a couple of ideas of what could be a way but I would li...
When I created the project I'm trying to deploy I selected that I wanted to target .NET Framework 2.0. After deploying the project I try to brows to it and get and error page that shows: <compilation debug="true"> <assemblies> <add assembly="System.Web.Entity, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089...
I have a Rails app that I need to deploy. Here are the facts: The app was developed on Windows and requires Windows binary gems The app is to be deployed onto an Open Solaris shared server (Joyent) I do not have permissions to install gems on the server For the non-binary gems, I can simply do a rake gems:unpack locally and then upload...
.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installs the .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 and the .NET Framework 3.0 SP2 behind the scenes. These installation packages (especially .NET Framework 2.0 SP2) are not available directly from Microsoft. Is there a way to extract them from the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installation package? ...
How can I protect a ClickOnce deployed application with a password? Do I have to change the IIS settings of the web or is there a way to do it programmatically? I'm using Visual Studio 2005 (.NET 2.0). If I have to use web credentials, are auto-updates of the application still possible? Would be great if you could provide some sample c...
I am working both in the Ruby and Java worlds. I have been inspired somewhat by the merb-assets project, which provides various functionality to make it easy to reference assets (images, CSS, etc.) located on a subdomain (or CDN). I want to do the same in Java: in development and testing, I want to use either JSTL's <c:url> or Struts ...
I have a .net application and i published in the local location. while installing from the published location the application need to install in "c:\temp" how can i do this in clickonce method? ...
I've got a number of batch processes that run behind the scenes for a Linux/PHP website. They are starting to grow in number and complexity, so I want to bring a small amount of process to bear on them. My source tree has a bunch of cpp files and scripts, organized with development but not deployment in mind. After compiling all the exe...
Especially when considering a fresh Rails project, what does your version control and deployment workflow look like? What tools do you use? I'm interested in answers for Mac, *nix and Windows work machines. Assume a *nix server. I'll edit for clarity if need be. ...
I want to deploy my site on my web hosting package by doing a checkout through subversion. I do not have SSH access to my hosting package, which is just a basic LAMP web hosting package, but I do know that there is an SVN client installed on the web server. I was thinking of writing some sort of script (PHP or Shell) that can do differe...
I'd like to upload (via ftp) a website when doing a release build in visual studio 2008. I don't want any source code files to be uploaded and it would be nice to configure which folders should get uploaded. I'm using either ASP.NET Web Applications or MVC. How do I configure VS.NET to automatically upload (and overwrite) the last dep...