deployment

Silverlight deploy misunderstanding

Sorry if my question is too noobish, but i need some help. I'm completly new to silverlight, and now i'm building an application with Paint-like functonality (which is easy in SL3). When i run it through VS - all is OK, firefox opens and show the working application. But when i'm trying to run it through "TestPage.html" (which looks pret...

Click-Once Deployment Overwriting User Settings

Click-once deployments are suppose to maintain user settings, but on this one application we have the user settings are overwritten to the Visual Studio default every time we publish an update. Any ideas of what might be happening? ...

Deploying Visual Studio Tools For Office 3.0 Runtime (EXE) in an MSI Package without using a Bootstrapper

Hi, I have created a Word Addin and created the MSI package to distribute it. Using the information found in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc563937.aspx ... I have tested the Setup.exe and the Addin installs correctly. The issue is when deploying the Addin over our network our system admin needs the file in an MSI rather th...

Setup project not finding the dependencies of a project primary output.

In Visual Studio 2008 I've added a project's primary output to a setup project but the project's dependencies are not being found. If I look at the properties of the primary output the Dependencies property shows as (None). If I look a little deeper then I can find that the Dependencies property under the KeyOutput property has the proj...

Does anybody know any troubles with deploying Visual C++ library using XCopy?

We need to deploy Visual C++ library. We have tried deploy this libraries using Merge Modules, but uninstall became too slow (about 10-20 minutes). So we've decided to deploy this libraries using XCopy method. Does anybody know any troubles with deploying Visual C++ library using XCopy? ...

Silverlight application cannot accesss WCF services on other machines

I have a silverlight application which works perfectly and can access the WCF services which are hosted in silverlight application itself. The port it is using is 1794. When I deploy to other servers (dev or test or staging), the application is not able to access WCF services. This is a snippet from my ServiceReference.ClientConfig lo...

Deployment Setup (.Net) - Search target machine -> Registry search (64 bit)

I have a windows installer project which installs some software (winform, service, mce addin). During the installation I need to search the machine for a registry key. This is done with with the "Launch Condition" -> "Add Registry Search" (Deployment Project). I have filled out all the properties right, and checked against the regestry ...

Deploying Pylons with uWSGI

Hi all, We're trying to move our intranet to Pylons. My boss is trying to set up Pylons to use uWSGI behind Apache so he can set up multiple, independent applications. However, he's having a difficult time getting it set up, with some apparent code problems in the C source code for uWSGI. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to depl...

recommended production environment for php5 application on windows?

We are about to deploy a php5 / symfony / mysql application on a windows stack (windows 2003 server) Our IT department doesn't have much experience administering any other stuff but microsoft technology, so I'd like to know what configuration would you propose for a production environment... apache and php on windows? php on iis? etc...

Rails deployment can't find correct gem version

I'm doing my first deployment of a Rails app and using capistrano. The installation aborts with the following error: *** [err :: plantality.com] RubyGem version error: will_paginate(2.2.2 not ~> 2.3.11) but I've already vendored 2.3.11 to vendor/gems and have the following in my environment.rb (which google tells me is the correct thi...

How do you deploy SQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced Services AND SP1

I am trying to write an installation program. I have completely automated the SQL Server 2008 Express installation (silently), using the Command Line install process as described here (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb264562(SQL.90).aspx). It works really well, but my problem now is that I need SQL Server 2008 Express with Adva...

How do I ensure my winform application deployment overwrites old versions.

I have created a msi install package for my project from the VS2008 deployment project. but I am having problems when it comes to upgrading installs, The previously installed version does not get overwritten. How do I ensure that previously installed versions get overwritten? ...

Capistrano install directory problem

I'm doing my first Rails deployment and using capistrano, following my host's directions: I have the domain plantality.com. I've created the gws folder for my app. I've installed with capistrano and followed all the wiki instructions I could find. public_html is pointing to gws/public but capistano has installed my app to gws/current...

How to deploy a grails app with a different context path

Where in the grails files can I define a different context path for a grails app to run on Tomcat ? (For instance, the project is called MyApplication, but I want to reference it as /myapp) Thanks ...

C# .Net - deployment "very" custom application

We are working on deploying a very custom application. The application is the main program (and only program) that will run on the PC, but it depends on multiple 3rd party installers that must be installed via separate setup programs. Some of these are standard MSI, install shield, other outdated setups, etc. On top of that we must de...

Trouble deploying ASP.NET MVC project to a hosting provider. 404 errors

I published my VS2008 ASP.NET MVC 1.0 project to a local folder, then FTPed it to a virtual directory on my host (GoDaddy). I attempted to run and it complained that System.Web.Mvc.dll is missing, so I copied that. After that I get a 404. Now I know that it gets to my HomeController.Index method, because it does a RedirectToAction. T...

Biztalk deployment/building problems

Hi, has anyone ever bothered about the fact that biztalk has a lot of annoying deployment/building problems. For example if I use c# assembly classes to be build/deployed I regularly get sgen.exe errors, which get fixed if i remove them from my assembly, however then some dependencies are giving problems again, which then means i have t...

WIX Installing an EXE after Msi install finishes.

Hi, I have created an MSI package which when finishes runs an exe. <Package InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes" /> <Media Id="1" Cabinet="media1.cab" EmbedCab="yes" /> <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> <Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder"> <Directory Id="INSTALLLOCATION" Name="Installer Example"...

What browsers does the Java Deployment Toolkit support?

I have been unable to find a list of supported browsers for the Java Deployment Toolkit. Does anyone know of such a list? If not, can anyone provide experience of what browsers they have successfully used it with. I want to confirm that Internet Explorer 6 is supported. ...

WSPBuilder: How to create a deployment package to deploy .dll and .wsp?

Hi, I'm using WSPBuilder and it is being very helpful. However, it was being hard to understand the strength of WSPBuilder because of missing manual. I've to create a solution file to deploy "Return of SmartPart" (.wsp file), "Application Template Core" (.wsp file) and also "AJAX Extensions" (.dll files). So, I won't have to edit the we...