deployment

Detect all depencies of an application

Hi All, I am in the process of "detecting" (more like listing down) all of the dependencies of our application. Currently, I am using depends.exe (Dependency Walker) to detect all of the file dependencies. I was actually able to get pass all the error messages about missing files and dependencies. However, when launching the app, all ...

How do I deploy a word template solution and run it regardless of it's location?

Hi, I'm trying to deploy a Word Template solution that uses VSTO with VS2010. Everything goes well until I try to move the template file away from the folder that has the assemblies (then I get a "failed to customization error"). What is the best way to make sure that file knows where the assemblies are? Should I update the _Assem...

Visual studio - One click publishing, web deploy, problem with non dll files

Hello, I have a simple web application built with several DLLs created on others projects in the same solution. This dlls access some text, xml files or other for information. This elements have their property "Copy To Output Directory" define to "Copy Always". When I built the web application, everthing is present on the "bin" output d...

How do you manage your sqlserver database projects for new builds and migrations?

How do you manage your sql server database build/deploy/migrate for visual studio projects? We have a product that includes a reasonable database part (~100 tables, ~500 procs/functions/views), so we need to be able to deploy new databases of the current version as well as upgrade older databases up to the current version. Currently we...

Where to install shared DLLs on Windows

I have a driver which can be installed on Windows (XP/Vista/7). It's accessed via a native C++ DLL that 3rd-party applications link to, and which is also a Winsock Provider (WSP). It used to be installed under System32, but having seen advice not to, I changed it to install under ProgramFiles instead. Now, the problem is that people are...

variables in batch scripts

I'm trying to set up a batch file to automatically deploy a php app to a web server. Basically, what I want is an entirely automated process: I would just give it a revision number from the repository and it would then export the files, upload via ftp and then update deployment info at the repo host (codebase). However, I'm starting ...

Deploying Silverlight applications to WinPhone7 emulator without Visual Studio

As per title, I would like to deploy my application without its Visual Studio project. I would prefer to place all executables/images/manifests in one directory and deploy it without needing the source or opening Visual Studio. There is a way to do that for XNA apps, but it doesn't work for Silverlight apps for some reason. Other people...

How do we use the ProgID column in the File Associations settings?

I'm deploying my application using ClickOnce. I want to register a file association but I can't manage to make it work: What should I use as ProgID in the File Associations section of the Publish Options? ...

How do I put some meat onto my Release Process?

Hello, I look after the merging, deployment and release of Products & Services in the Company I work for. I've slowly moved to this position from development so a lot of this is new to me (I guess!) We have a deployment process, but no real Release procedure other than telling stakeholders and members of staff about these new services/...

Mercurial automated deployment

Hi all, Im in the process of looking for a way to streamline the deployment of one of our php web applications (if it works on this ill roll it out to other apps). I quite like the look of this: http://www.springloops.com/, but its SVN and were using mercurial. Unfortunately we have no shell access to our current server, so somethin...

MSTest Deployment without DeploymentItemAttribute

Is there any way to deploy an item without using this attribute? I'm starting to get a stack of attributes over my test base and it's becoming hard to maintain. Most of my items are DLLs that need to be put into a folder below the deployment directory. ...

Deployment of encrypted app.config

Hi, Could you please help me? I've created a console .Net application and encrypted the app.config file with RSAProtectedConfigurationProvider. I've used an article http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/EncryptingTheAppConfig.aspx as an example for the Encryption. It works fine in an IDE on my XP desktop. Then I deployed my application to...

Deploying BlackBerry Applications Across Environments

Has anyone come up with a good solution for deploying BlackBerry applications across different environments? My example is storing URLs and Authentication information in code. In most cases, a developer is going to have a different set of URL's to test against when developing the application vs what the end user is going to hit. The id...

Why does deploying a .NET Compact Framework assembly cause .NET Desktop Framework assemblies to be deployed?

I am trying to get one of my developers set up to work on a fairly large .NETCF project. When we try to simply deploy the solution and all of its projects to a target device, deploying one of the projects triggers several assemblies from the desktop framework to be copied from the GAC to the device. What on earth could cause this? The...

deploying winform application with embedded sqlite

Hello Good people!! I'm deploying a winform application built with vs 2008 0n XP sp3. I created a database with empty schema which i dropped in the root folder of the project and in properties i choosed Build Action: Embedded Resources and Copy to Output directory : Copy always. Now instead of having connectionstring in the app.config...

Where to store deployment scripts

Assuming that I have the following directory structure for a Python project: config/ scripts/ src/ where should a fabric deployment script should go? I assume that it should be in scripts, obviously, but for me it seems more appropriate to store in scripts, the actual code that fires up the project. ...

Deployment process

We are having a massive system having around 15 servers hosting .Net WCF services, mvc application etc. When we do a deployment (out of office hours) we have to uninstall and install everything on the live servers. This takes lot of time and if something goes wrong we have to rollback everything. can you please suggest something differen...

"Build Deployment Package" VS2010 from script

How is it possible to build a web service deployment package from script. I can msbuild /target:rebuild /p:Configuration=Debug ".\MyProject.sln" but it does not build the deployment package. ...

Deploy data base with setup project

Hi can some body help me please? I'd like to know how to add a sql script to a setup project, so that after the instalition the data base is implémented? I mean that the setup project implement the data base that I add it to the setup project with the sql script I'm using c#, wpf, SQL SERVER2008, VisualSutdio 2008 thank's ...

Tilecache standalone server with nginx in production environment

Hi, I am really new to tilecache. I would like to know how good is the tilecache http server that comes with the tilecache installation. Is it practical to deploy it behind nginx in production environment? (i.e. nohup tilecache_http_server.py -p 8000 & and then editting the nginx.conf). The VPS we are using has nginx installed already so...