deployment

Deploying only changed portions of a war to Tomcat

I'm deploying my application to Tomcat, which currently involves uploading a ~40MB war file to a remote server. Often the changes within the war only affect jars and static content which account for maybe 2 - 3MB's. Is there some tooling I can integrate with my Ant script that can accurately detect the changes to the war and give me a ...

Launching my deployed my app gets "has stopped working" error. How do I debug this?

I deployed a VB.Net app and ran it and I get 'AppName has stopped working" "Windows is checking for a solution to the problem" along with a Cancel button under Windows 7. Under XP I am only getting the option to Send the error report to Microsoft or not. There is no apparent way to hook into a debugger. I am not getting any exception da...

WPF Application Deployment Problem

i created a WPF application and i added a setup solution and i did everything to deploy the project and i got my setup.msi i installed it in my system, The problem is my application is running in task manager, but i cant see my application any where in desktop or start menu,but tast manager process show that my application is running. ...

.NET Deployment Framework

Many people use Nant or Powershell for deployment of their apps to different servers/environments. These are based on scripting while some solutions allow deployment to be embedded in code like Migrator.Net and other Ruby inspired Db deployment/migration frameworks in .NET. I was wondering if there are any frameworks for .NET for appli...

How to deploy a visual studio custom tool?

Hello. I have a my own custom tool for Visual Studio 2008 SP1. It consists of 5 assemblies: 3 assemblies with code that used heavily in my other projects, 1 assembly-wrapper above VS2008 SDK and assembly with the tool. If I'd debug my tool from visual studio, using "Run external program" option with command line "C:\Program Files (x86)...

Minimum needs to Deploy SQL Server Integration Services 2008

Hi, I would like to run SSIS 2008 packages on a server that does not have SQL Server 2008 installed on it. I have a simple package to test the concept, but it fails to execute. The return code is 9020 which I have not seen listed as a return code elsewhere. I have copied the following files to the test server that does not have SQL S...

Deployments and TFS, general questions

SOX requires that we have a separate group deploy our ASP.NET web to production. Currently, that group has access to our current code repository in VSS and uses VSS to deploy code that has been checked into VSS. How are deployments typically done for web applications? As a developer, I have used the Deploy function in Visual Studio to...

Branch by abstraction: Are there "examples" of how it can be done?

Having read Martin Fowlers "Feature Branch" and Flickrs "Flipping Out" I guess there are a few guys out there who do: all (or most) development on Trunk release Trunk regularly (assuming updating your web site) not-yet-approved or not-yet-finished features should not be visible/have no impact on the regular user I've got 2 questions:...

mod_wsgi daemon mode vs threaded fastcgi

Can someone explain the difference between apache mod_wsgi in daemon mode and django fastcgi in threaded mode. They both use threads for concurrency I think. Supposing that I'm using nginx as front end to apache mod_wsgi. UPDATE: I'm comparing django built in fastcgi(./manage.py method=threaded maxchildren=15) and mod_wsgi in 'daemon' ...

Determine location to install software with click once deployment

I would like to make sure that my application is installed in the correct location on the hard drive or allow the user to determine the install location. How can I do that? Thanks ...

MS Runtime required for app to run, how can I include with setup?

My application requires access to be installed on the computer or at least the MS Access runtime. Is their a way to include that with the application to check for that component/resource or install it if it isn't? Or would it just be easier to include a link to tell the user where to get the runtime if the error happens? I am using V...

Unsupported Media Type when deploying OTA Blackberry App

I have a blackberry app that I am trying to deploy OTA (over the air). I have set the MIME type on my server to be: cod application/vnd.rim.cod jad text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor jar application/java-archive When I access the JAD file on my web-server through the BlackBerry Browser, I get the message Unsupported Media T...

App doesn't appear in Applications or Downloads folder after OTA Download

I have a Blackberry app on my web-server. When a user downloads via the BlackBerry Browser the JAD file is installed automatically, but does not appear in the Downloads folder or in the installed Applications folder. Did I do something wrong with my deployment? ...

Deploying ASP.NET MVC web project by remotely building committed VisualSVN code

Publishing my entire application to a server in the U.S. every time I change a single line of code is taking FOREVER. I'm running VisualSVN server on my production server. How can I auto-build my project (to a development site folder) on the server whenever a commit is made? And is this a good practice? Update: I'm now looking into t...

Small standalone SQL database similar to access in the old days(ie file database)

Hi, I am looking for a easy to use and deploy sql type database i can ship with a desktop application. This will be a small application user's can download from my website. In the vb6 days, access was the common database for small desktop apps, what is my option these days? Looking at SQL CE it seems to have a quite a few limitations...

I am using click-once deployment but have a new access file but need the old one.

This is the situation. I have a windows form app that uses an access database to store the information. Everything has been going good. Now I am going to release a new version with an updated access file (2 new tables, 1 old table with new column). But the people that have been using the app I don't want them to loose their informati...

How to keep deployed code on multiple biztalk front ends in sync?

We have multiple Biztalk 2006 application servers, and I find it almost impossible to keep the versions of our projects in sync on them. It's a tedious process of deploying the MSI packages, importing them, matching up files in the GAC, deploying some registry changes, and if one step is missed or somebody deployed an updated copy of a D...

How to create share for a whole drive under WiX?

I would like to create a share for a whole drive in my WiX installer project. The default approach for share creation works just fine for folders, but not for drives! The following code snippet illustrates the problem: <!-- Works! --> <Property Id="MySharePath"><![CDATA[X:\ROOT]]></Property> <!-- Works NOT! <Property Id="MySharePath"><!...

Problem with copy content to client site by ClickOnce deployment.

I have create 2 projects, first is main project and another is content file (excel file). I have set property of these file to copy to output directory = copy always and build action = content. However when I deploy to user site using ClickOnce, it can't find these excel file. I use code as show below to get file path. string.Format(...

Unpacking gems [Rails 2.3.5]

I have the following gems defined in my environment.rb file: config.gem "authlogic" config.gem "paperclip" config.gem "pauldix-feedzirra", :lib => "feedzirra", :source => "http://gems.github.com" config.gem 'whenever', :lib => false, :source => 'http://gemcutter.org/' I have them installed on my local computer and everything i...