deployment

Which merge modules to use for a Crystal Reports XI deployment with a VB6 application?

In the VB application I use the CRAXDRT.dll and a ReportViewerControl on a form. Which merge modules do I need? ...

is Windows Installer Redistributable package necessary for deployment using inno setup ?

Hi all, Im a .Net beginner. i need to ask something. if i want to deploy my .net winform application (use 3.5 sp 1) using inno setup. do i also need to deploy Windows Installer Redistributable package for each user's pc. Is it mandatory ? thank you. ...

I have made an installer for MyProgram but the uninstall shortcut that it creates leaves behind empty folders

I have created an installer for MyProgram using the Visual Studio Installer (Visual Studio Setup Project). It is called "MyProgram Setup.msi". It installs the program fine and if it is uninstalled using the Add/Remove Programs control panel then everything gets removed as it should. The problem is that I want to add a shortcut to the "U...

Deploying ASP.Net MVC application

I've recently reached the stage where an ASP.net MVC application I am developing is ready to be deployed to the production server. I've worked out how to publish the application - I've got all the files on the server, and can access them over the internet. However, I can't work out how to deploy my database. The server has the SQL Ser...

sql server db deployment script ignoring constraints etc until commit

Hi all, I am planning on doing a database deployment script for sql server 2005. Currently we have a tool that will run all of the tables, foreign keys, indexes and then data, each of which is located in a separate file with a certain extension (eg. tab, .kci, .fky) and the tool just runs *.tab, *.kci, *.fky into the db etc. Could I p...

Custom prerequsites to visual studio setup project

I have a Visual Studio Setup project and have followed the steps mentioned in this link to load the Shared Add-in Support Update for the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (KB908002) to the prerequisites list. The entry appears but there is this following warning shown No 'HomeSite' attribute has been provided for 'Shared Add-in Support Upda...

phing FtpDeploy "connection to host failed"

I'm getting the following error when trying to deploy a ZIP file to a remote FTP server. I tried connecting to the server using an FTP client (filezilla) and all goes well. Also, when connecting to a public ftp like ftp.belnet.be connections work fine. I'm trying to send the file to a VSFTPD server behind a router using port forwardin...

.Net 3.5 DLL XML dependency

Hi, I wrote a class library in C# that uses a external XML file to store some data. I use this data (encoded rules) directly in the class library to do some substitutions within a text parser. The rules within the XML: <rule> <word>h e l l o</word> <sub>Hello</sub> </rule> When I share the lib, I also have to share the XML. T...

Deploying without installer

I'm doing a very small windows application consisting of just a single executable. As the program will reside on a SD card I want the application to be as self contained as possible, and I'd rather not have an installer. I'd want the user to be able to simply copy the executable to the SD card and be able to run it straight away without ...

Smooth redeployment of WAR in production?

I was wondering if there is a 'smooth way' of redeploying a Java WAR to a production server (no cluster, no OSGi)? All I can come up with is stop server, update file, restart server. And 10 minutes beforehand I need to display a maintenance warning on the site. What's your approach? ...

Is there a standard place to store Spring library jar files?

I've downloaded Spring 3.0.2 with dependencies and found that it contains 405 jar files. I usually keep third party libraries in a "lib" subdirectory, but there are so many Spring jars that it seems sensible to keep them separately so that they don't swamp the other libraries and to simplify version upgrades. I suspect that I want to ke...

phing: get last commit ID (revision) and use it as a phing attribute

I'm trying to get the latest revision ID from my SVN project using Phing. What I'm trying to do is the following: get latest revision/commit number from svn store this revision number as an attribute (so that I can use this to append it to the archive I'm already creating using phing) I don't have a working copy on my server wh...

How to deploy DevExpress to server?

Hello I am needing to deploy a project using DevExpress controls to an IIS 6.0 server. The project loads fine and until I add in the DevExpress controls. When trying to load the site I get the error Could not load file or assembly 'DevExpress.Web.v9.3, Version=9.3.4.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b88d1754d700e49a' or one ...

How to deploy a c# application while including third party DLL's?

To start with, I don't know much of deployment. I hope my question makes sense. I need to install/deploy a c# application to a number of desktops. It needs a third-party DLL : a c++ library ("lpsolve55.dll", for those interested, it is a free MIP/LP solver, see lpsolve.sourceforge.net/5.5/). I use it in my code in the following way: ...

Deleted context on undeploy

I have two applications deployed on tomcat. For each application I have defined their own context in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost where JDBC datasource is defined. When I undeploy one of the application using ant script context of this application is deleted, so on the next start of the tomcat application cannot be deployed bec...

Publishing via "File System" in Visual Studio 2010 - Doesn't work!

Hi, this is an extremely frustrating situation. We have just upgraded to Visual Studio 2010, and very nice it is, except for when it won't do something really simple, like Publish your ASP.NET Web Application to a folder on your desktop. For some unearthly reason, what used to work flawlessly in 2008 is now generating an error: It stops...

how to upgrade phing 'stable' to phing 'trunk' to use SSHTask

phing 2.4.1 (current stable version) doesn't have an SSH Task to do remote scripting. In the current trunk version, there is a SSH Task that we would like to use. How can I upgrade my current phing installation (2.4.1) to the latest build? Can I use pear for that without breaking my current phing install? Or would it be better to downl...

Visual Studio and Silverlight deployment

I am using the Publish functionality to deploy my Silverlight webapplication. I am not hosting it in an aspx page, just a plain html page. I do not need all the extra aps.net stuff. When I publish it, it wants to add a bin folder, and it wants to compile the site it seems. Is there any way I can disable this? I just want my index.html fi...

Choosing an installer product that is free and will download/install the .NET Framework

I'm currently using the Visual Studio Installer (Setup Project) in Visual Studio 2010 as the installer for MyProgram. It has some quirky bugs and is not very customizable so I would like to switch to another installer product. Here are my requirements: Must be free (and licensed for commercial use) Must install the Windows Installer 3....

Deploying to Heroku with sensitive setting information

I'm using GitHub for code and Heroku for the deployment platform for my rails app. I don't want to have sensitive data under Git. Such data include database file settings (database.yml) and some other files that have secret API keys. When I deploy to heroku, how can I deal with files that are not under revision control. When I use Cap...