Ok so I'm developing a WPF application that makes heavy use of SQL Server. I've been asked to create an installer package that checks whether the client already has SQL Server Express 2005 already installed, his operating system (64bit Vs x86) and install the required SQL Server instance if needed. I'm then required to automatically map...
Like every commit has a reason and purpose, I think each deploy has a purpose and reason. Source code commits have a comment. But deploying doesn't have any. How do I record a reason and purpose for each deploy automatically? I need to keep a record of: Who deployed to where and what time. Why deployed? Bug fixes? Feature update? Eme...
Hi, everybody. I have Apache Geronimo installed with Tomcat. I am building a war file and whant to deploy it to Geronimo automatically with Ant script. A standart way to deploy to Geronimo is to use deployer.jar, am I right? And I saw that there are tasks available to deploy jars on standalone Tomcat. So what would be the right way? Or m...
I´ve tried a couple of different ways to deploy a application to a IIS 7.5 running on my machine for testing purposes and i´ve sort of hit a wall. Nothing works out of the box. Everything assumes I have knowledge I don't have and would prefer not to have to aqquire. Google isn't really helping either with answers ranging from "copy file...
The whole story: I have created a fancy .NET program which has an installer created by the Visual Studio Installer (VSI). The VSI creates 2 files (setup.exe and MyProgramSetup.msi). I understand the reasons for both files being needed, however, I only want to distribute a SINGLE executable installer to users. I do not want them to see 2 ...
Hi, I'm working on a Java web project that uses Maven to build its artifacts. At the end of the Maven build we have a few jar and war files that we need to deploy onto our development/testing environment. Right now we're using a pretty hefty Ant script that performs several tasks (on both Windows/Linux machines) Starts/Stops services...
Does anyone know of a good Django equivalent of Capistrano/Webistrano? ...
we have a company wide SharePoint portals planned for few thousand users. since the users are distributed among different countries and their applications (hosted in sharepoint) We would like to consider geo deployment Vs geo load balancing. Please share your inputs. We are aware of this, Geo SharePoint Cluster facilitates - Farms a...
Has anyone ever worked on a WordPress project with multiple developers in different locations? Are there best practices around distributed development teams and automated deployments? I have a team of varying degrees of developers, including plugin developers, theme developers, and simple CSS style tweakers, in a few different locations...
Hello I have a setup for an application that was recently converted to be a framework 4.0 project (don't know if it's relevant). The setup has to write to registry (Local Machine) and until now this has always worked perfectly, however now it fails to write to registry on a clean machine (running Windows 7, 64 bit). The setup does not ...
I'm trying to create an install package. I've got all my components, and I think I understand most of the process. I want to have an install/set-up script that is run as part of the install. I planned to put it either as a post-install action or a post-install script. The problem is that I need user-input. I can't figure out how to eith...
Hello, To install windows services on our client's site I'm using msi setup files created with Setup and Deoployment Project (VS2008). I'm using loose installation so assemblies are not packed but rather visible in the folder structure. The problem is that our solution contains projects specific to particular clients (in other words th...
My application uses many Python libraries (Django, Twisted, xmlrpc). I cannot expect that the end user has the Python installed with all needed libraries. I've created a fancy installer for my application using Inno Setup, but I don't think that it is a good solution to execute 5 other setup programs from my installer. It would be anno...
I have a small .NET WinForms application, and couple of linux servers, DEV and CL1,CL2..CLN (DEV is development server and CL* are servers which belons to our clients, they are in private networks and it's a kind of production servers) I want an update mechanism so that (1) i develop a new version and publish it to a DEV (2) users of DE...
Hi, We have setup continuos integration in our development environment using SVN, CC.Net, MSBuild and Nunit. Now, we want to automate the process of moving (copying) builds from one stage to another like this: Whenever a new build succeeds in Dev, that should be copied automatically to the QA server (a folder on the QA server, to b...
Hello, I have a setup project with InstallShield 2010. I'm deploying a configuration file during installation. However, when uninstalled, InstallShield decides to delete it (which is normal). The question is, is there a way to keep the file on the hard disk even after the application in uninstalled? I don't want to reconfigure the appl...
Hi, For a few months we're developing an olap cube on SQL 2005. We deploy this cube on the local server which worked fine until a few weeks ago. From that moment we got got an error while delpoying the cube. "Error 1 File system error: Error opening file; \?\C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\OLAP\Data\SSAS_Funda.0.db\Dim B...
Hello Good people, I'm trying to do add an auto-updater to a wpf application of mine and liked this article and i've tried to add the updater component to the toolbox of the VS 2008 that i'm using but it seems it cannot be added to the wpf project toolbox.I doubt i would see it the wpf project toolbox even though i added it from winfor...
I am working to rebuild my company's dev/test/QA environment. We have 10-15 programmers that are involved in a number of projects. They currently all develop locally on their PCs and use the dev environment for testing. We currently do not have a QA environment, so deployments are frequently a pain because bugs are usually found after so...
Device: Curve 8520 OS: 4.6.1 JDE: 4.6.1 JDK: 1.6 Signed app? Yes. Hello, I'm trying to deploy a blackberry app (called 'ConstituenC') that works fine in the simulator. It uses restricted APIs, so I obtained a key from RIM and applied it via the Java Development Environment. When I attempt to run on my phone (BB Curve, 8520. OS: 4.6.1...