deployment

ASP.NET MVC application when deployed to IIS 7 in integrated mode using NHibernate data will not load

We have built an ASP.NET MVC application which utilizes NHibernate, the MVCContrib version of StructureMap, and an onion architecture as outlined by Jeffery Palermo in ASP.NET MVC in Action. This application works well when running locally from Visual Studio 2008. The Index action on our Home controller loads a view which immediately pu...

How can I deploy a WPF application with ClickOnce that accesses a local MDF database file?

I made a simple WPF application in Visual Studio. It accesses its own database file in its own directory with this connection string: System.Environment.CurrentDirectory + @"\Data\" + databaseFileName; I clicked Publish and basically accepted all the defaults (CD/DVD publishing, no online updates). I copied the setup folder to anoth...

Deploying Expression Encoder SDK Without Installing

I am trying to prove a concept while using the Microsoft Expression Encoder 3 SDK. I am trying to deploy the SDK to my hosted web server to understand more about whether or not that will work and what else needs to be installed. I cannot get anything to work on the server. Here are the 4 Dlls that I understand that I need that I am de...

ClickOnce & XNA issues

I essentially have a blank XNA project built using the XNA 3.1 wizard, i'm testing whether a game i make can be "installed" on another computer without having to make them install everything manually to make it work. The only additional code in the game is: Components.Add(new GamerServicesComponent(this)); After going through the Cli...

How to deploy highly iterative updates

I have a set of binary assets (swf files) each about 150Kb in size. I am developing them locally on my home computer and I want to periodically deploy them for review. My current strategy is: Copy the .swf's into a transfer directory that is also a hg (mercurial) repo. hg push the changes to my slicehost VPN ssh onto my slicehost VPN ...

How can I tell what modules were originally provided with the specific Perl installation on a machine?

How can I tell what modules were originally provided with the specific Perl installation on a machine? (This is not a duplicate of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2049735 ( "How can I tell if a Perl module is core or part of the standard install?" ) - it is in fact a spin-off question from it ) I am looking for what came with the i...

Auto Update Web App

I have a small web app (Mvc) that I need to periodically update (no ftp or other access). I would like that from the "Super Ultra Mega administratior" page direcly in the app I can spin up the update process. I know this is not the best security approach but I can live with it and I would like to avoid a permanent service that continuo...

What is your experience of PHP encrypters? Which one would you recommend?

We have an application that is written in PHP that we are going to license to a customer. Our company believes that the customer might intend to steal the source code and create their own fork of the software, therefore we want to encrypt the source code. I have searched some for PHP-encrypters and found several that seems good, but sin...

Security model (deployment) for MS Access application with SQL Server Backend

We have an application, consisting of an MS Access frontend (2007, mdb format), a few .net libraries and an SQL Server (2008) backend. I am working on an installer, which automatically installs the MS Access Runtime, our application, our libraries, SQL Server Express and configures everything. Clearly, the MS Access application and the ...

error deploying to Google Appengine

Hi, I'm trying to deploy my java based appengine app through the eclipse plugin. I get an error at the very end of the process whichI pasted below. Any ideas what this could mean? com.google.appengine.tools.admin.AdminException: Unable to update app: Error posting to URL: http://appengine.google.com/api/queue/update?app_id=ipoobeta&amp...

MacOSX: How to collect dependencies into a local bundle?

I am creating a plugin application (dylib) that depends on several other libraries. These other libraries are installed on my system, but are not guaranteed to be installed on any user's system. So I need to find a way bundle the dependencies along with my application. I found that I can use otool to list or change the paths to other dy...

C# Express: How to publish project for use with 3rd party installer (msi)?

I want to publish my c# project (c# 2008 express edition) and create an (msi) installer with Inno Setup Compiler. How can I do this? ...

Deploy changed files using Git

I’ve come to Git from SVN. Formerly in order to update some production site I compared revisions from production one to HEAD using TortoiseSVN, exported changed/added files into a temporary directory and after that uploaded them onto production server. Is it possible to reproduce the same using Git (TortoiseGit)? ...

Unable to initalize log4j

Hi, I am trying to initialize log4j-1.2.8 for my application by creating a listener class implemented from the ApplicationLifecycleListener of Weblogic 9.2 When I deploy the application, I am getting following exceptions: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/log4j/spi/RepositorySelector at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Nati...

Continuous Integration with Oracle Products

Hi, I'm currently working on a Datawarehouse project using an Oracle Database, Oracle Data Integrator, Oracle Warehouse Builder and some Jython thrown in for good measure. All of which is held within TFS. My background is .net and prior to this project was seeing a lot of promise in CI. I'm not suggesting that the testing element of CI...

XBAP full trust deployment

I did the following steps to deploy my wpf application that need full trust permission: 1-Creating a certificate using makecert.exe 2-Creating signed application and deployment manifests. 3-Building a website in IIS to host files (include MyApplication.exe.manifest and MyAppicatio.xbap) 4-Adding certificate - used to sign manifests -...

What is the easiest way to update a .NET Windows service in production?

Say, you have a custom Windows service installed on a server. The service is written using .NET, and it is installed using either InstallUtil, an MSI package or the ManagedInstallerClass (if it makes a difference, pick the one that solves the problem). Regularly, you will need to deploy changes to the service, and of course you want to m...

MVC content cut off resulting in blank page

I have the strangest problem that I simply cannot solve by myself. I have this ASP.NET MVC 1 application that works flawelessly on my local development machine, using IIS5. I made the appropriate changes to get MVC to work on IIS5 by adding a route for .mvc controllers and an aspnet_isapi.dll filter as documented in http://haacked.com/...

Best practice for handling environment specific settings for a Java web app?

I have a Java web app that offloads some environment specific settings (Hibernate configurations, required directory paths, etc.) in a properties file that is ultimately packaged in the deployed WAR. If I wish to distribute this web app, what's the best way to handle the mangement of these settings? It's not feasible to ask the user to...

Can anyone tell me what is wrong with this .INF file?

I've been stuck on this all day, and have just run out of ideas. I'm trying to run an installer from a CAB file initiated on a web page. I built a cab file that includes an installer (BlowbackInstaller.msi) and an inf file (see below). The Problem: When I hit the web page in IE8, it correctly prompts me that a control is trying to i...