installation

detect first time installation date

Hi, what will be the best way to detect what was the first time my product was installed on a certain machine. Need that in order to prevent users from reinstalling my product again and again and get the free automatic time-limited installation license. Ofer ...

.NET Framework & Visual Studio install order

Hi Folks, does it matter if we install .net framework & then visual studio or does visual studio comes with the framework ? I know it's a basic question but i never thought of this honestly. TIA ...

Entity Framework in .NET?

Do we need to install the entity framework separately or does it come with .net 3.5 ...

Is it safe to install .net 4.0 RC on a 3.5 development machine?

I want to try a few things with the new version of the framework, but I use my machine to develop quite a few .NET 3.5 applications. Will I be able to uninstall the framework and Vs 2010 without problems or incompatibilities? Has anyone tried it? ...

Cannot get Visual Editor to install on Eclipse

I am getting this error: An error occurred while collecting items to be installed session context was:(profile=SDKProfile, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.engine.phases.Collect, operand=, action=). Artifact not found: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.jem,2.0.300.R3_1_maintenance. http://download.eclipse.org/tools/ve/u...

Trying to install Rails 3, getting a strange "Ruby upgrade" notice.

I'm trying to get my computer (Mac OS X, running Leopard) running with the latest version of Rails. Before this, I had 2.3.5. I tried following some instructions a few days ago, but didn't seem to make much progress. Now, I can't do anything in Rails. You'll see what I mean in a sec. Theoretically, I've got the latest versions of Ruby: ...

How do I install the Mono Winforms Designer on Mac OS X?

I've searched around but was unable to find a good, clear, answer. Can someone please explain to me how I can install the Mono Winforms Designer on Mac OS X? If it's not possible on OS X, can it be done on Linux? And if so, how? Any and all help is appreciated! Thanks. ...

Installing SQL Server 2008 on a development machine

I am setting up a new Windows 7 machine. I have installed VS 2008 Team System Developer / Database Ed. I have also installed SP1 and ran windows update. When I now try to install SQL Server on the machine it fails because I have a "Previous version" of visual studio. Anyone know why I am getting this error or how to fix it? EDIT I ...

How to install Python ssl module on Windows?

The Google App Engine Launcher tells me: WARNING appengine_rpc.py:399 ssl module not found. Without the ssl module, the identity of the remote host cannot be verified, and connections may NOT be secure. To fix this, please install the ssl module from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ssl . I downloaded the package and it contained ...

Installing PostgreSQL on OSX for Rails development

I've spent several hours over the past few days trying to get PostgreSQL to play nice with RoR on my Mac. I've followed several tutorials using several different methods such as installing PostgreSQL manually and installing from various 1-click installers However the all the different methods I tried failed on the last step of installi...

Python: Can't use the command python

I want to install summon-module on windows 7. I tried python setup.py install but cmd doesn't know the command "python". I also set the path correctly. What is the problem? Thanks in advance. ...

Path of current Python instance?

I need to access the Scripts and tcl sub-directories of the currently executing Python instance's installation directory on Windows. What is the best way to locate these directories? ...

configure, make, git on windows = how to compile&install on windows

I want to make work ffmpeg-ruby on windows. If possible. But I do not know how to do configure make ./configure --prefix=/opt/ffmpeg --enable-pthreads --enable-shared --enable-gpl make sudo make install git on windows? git clone git://github.com/gwik/ffmpeg-ruby.git cd ffmpeg-ruby gem build ./ffmpeg-ruby.gemspec sudo gem install...

Installing SharePoint 2010 in Microsoft VPC (Windows 2008 Server) Vs Upgrading MOSS 2007 in same server?

I am aware of the upgrade options for SharePoint 2010 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e8b66eb3-27c7-4a39-a2e1-3e7d18b12ee1 The above talks more of a Production Deployment. And i have seen so many Windows 7 VHD boot for SharePoint 2010. Would like to hear options for the MS VPC with Windows...

Why does my Perl program complain "Can't locate URI.pm in @INC"?

I'm new to Perl. I get the following error when I run a script: Can't locate URI.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/packages/perl_remote/5.6.1/lib/5.6.1/i86pc-solaris /usr/local/packages/perl_remote/5.6.1/lib/5.6.1 /usr/local/packages/perl_remote/5.6.1/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i86pc-solaris /usr/local/packages/perl_remote/5.6.1/lib/site_p...

Upgrading Tinn-R

I'm using Tinn-R version 2.2.0.2 and I want to upgrade to the latest version 2.3.4.4. I couldn't find any upgrade options in the menus of Tinn-R. So my question is: Is it safe to download and just install the new version? Will it overwrite my current Tinn-R settings? ...

I can't get the ruby development kit working for Windows XP

So, I can't for the life of my get this working properly. My ultimate goal is to get the dbd-odbc gem installed and working, and from multiple things I've read, I need to install the ODBC binding for ruby alongside the dbd-odbc gem. Well, I can get the dbd-odbc gem installed just fine, but when it comes to trying to install the binding i...

Portable /Virtual / Zero-impact installation and usage of Visual Studio 2008

Hi all, I want to give a C#/.NET course (for just one or two days) at a local computer club. I want to use all free tools to do so (read VS Express Editions). They have mid-class machines, all with properly licensed XP, but no Visual Studio installed on them. I would like not to install Visual Studio on all those machines (about a doze...

How can I load a Perl module at runtime?

Good Day, I would like to use the HTML::Template module. However, it is not installed on the server I'm using to develop CGI scripts. Is it possible to load a module at runtime: I found the Template.pm file on my local Perl installation and uploaded the file to the server I'm using. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use CGI qw(:standard :html4); ...

windows NDIS intermediate (IM) driver installation programmatically

I am learning windows NDIS Intermediate(IM) driver development.I am getting problem in installation . I always need to install it manually. My question is how can i do NDIS intermediate (IM) driver installation programmatically Regards Navaneeth ...