I have an application to be distributed. Pretty much everything is self-contained within one bundle so I could just put the bundle in a DMG for the first version-- however this won't work for upgrades, so I figured I'd best work out the process ahead of time. I've been looking at PackageMaker and it seems straightforward enough. However...
I have an installation of ASP.NET MVC 2.0 RC1 which I am planning to upgrade to the newly released RC2. This upgrade path isn't mentioned in the release notes. Does anyone know if I can upgrade from RC1 or should I uninstall it first? I'd like to avoid any possible problems with the upgrade so if anyone has already done this and has an...
I have an unfinished application, but I want to address now the future update of it. Suppose my app was upgraded, so when starts, detects that the database schema is outdated. So for each table has to update according to version number to the new schema while preserving all data. I've read somewhere that on Android the SQLite database ...
Some programmers here have been developing a project in VB6, and they say they now need to upgrade to vb.net if they want their apps to run on newer/future systems as vb6 is going to be history soon. So there is this huge application they have been working on that they are going to have to rebuild from scratch (they tried to use the upg...
Hi, I'm administrating servers running IIS 6, hosting a website on ASP.NET 2.0. Yesterday I installed .Net framework 3.5, and all my user authentication system was lost. Users can't log in, because their password arn't getting authenticated, maybe because the hash function has changed in 3.5??? I can't really get to the code, but I know...
i'm going to install sql server 2008 on my computer,during preparing the installation there was an error like this: a previous release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is installed on this computer. Upgrade Microsoft visual studio 2008 to sp1 before installing SQL Server 2008. So i should upgrade my visual studio to sp1, but i don't kn...
I migrated a web app from Asp.Net 1.1 to Asp.net 2.0 using VS 2005. While I tested and debuged and the Asp.net 2.0 version, we made some enhancements to the 1.1 production version (requests from users). I'd like to know the best strategy for bringing the changes in the 1.1 web forms into the 2.0 version. Is deleting the web form from ...
I am struggling to enable the major upgrade functionality in WiX. I want every new version of the installer to be a major upgrade (full uninstall, then new install) as we don't want different upgrade and clean install versions. I started off trying to do it using the tag stuff, but I kept getting "Another version is installed." error ...
Hi, I'm going to have to move a Rails 1.1.2 app, because my hosting contract is going to expire. I haven't done anything to the code for a few years and I would like to know what would be the best way to upgrade my app. Many things have changed since then, RoR isn't using a localization plugin anymore but i18n, etc.. I would like to r...
I am in the process of upgrading a Visual Studio 2005 .NET (C#) application from it's integration with MapPoint 2004 to supporting MapPoint 2009. After a bit of searching and fiddling, I've generated new DLLs using "tldimp" and "aximp" and now have Interop.MapPoint.dll and AxInterop.MapPoint.dll and the namespaces seem to line up to the...
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 found a guide on how to add new attributes to users, it explains that for this operation I must modify some files in the app / code / core / Mage directory (the directory that contains Magento’s modules). But if i make some changes in that folder will this affect future upgrades? Will an upgrade will delete my changes? Should I lim...
I have an Application written in GWT 1.4.6 Is it feasible to up grade it to GWT 2.0? Where can i found the older versions of GWT i.e. 1.5, 1.6. Do i need to up grade version by version or can i straight away up grade to 2.0?? ...
Here's are the errors: VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of allowInsecureDomain in _SwdModule_mx_core_FlexModuleFactory. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable _SwdModule_mx_core_FlexModuleFactory is not defined. SwdModule is a module used within the organization and there's an application that loads this (and various other mo...
We're upgrading our fairly old version of jmeter and would like to avoid re-authoring the many many scripts we've built. I've noticed that the jmx file is stored in xml format. Are there any xsl's or automatic converter apps that can help us automatically update the majority of the definition and highlight parts where jmeter has change...
How does the data in a database in the field get upgraded because a new version of the software is being released? For an example, consider look up data. Usually the look up data associates an ID (number) to a name (string) and then this ID is referenced in other tables instead of the the ID directly (i.e. normalized). There are other ty...
I am trying to convert a package from 2005 to 2008 and am running into some rpblems that seem to be related to synonym lookups. This worked fine in 2005 but for some reason is breaking in 2008, thanks for any assistance. Here is the error text: =================================== Error at Update Existing Assets [Lookup Asset to Make ...
Is there an easy way to grow / zoom a VB.NET application and all controls within it to fill a larger screen resolution (or must I adjust each form element individually)? NOTE: Adjusting the resolution back is not a permanent (or preferred) option in this case. ...
Can you help me to understand, how do I do Drupal website deployment and development? Suppose, I developed 1.0 version of Berty&Frank website. I copied everything to their production server and it is alive and kicking now. Site is already full of contents and is growing. I am asked to add additional features to the website. I am now ex...
Looking for some best practices on handling a major dependency upgrades within a project, assuming the use of a dependency management tool(e.g., Maven 2). Specifically, I'm interested in: How to get an inherited application up-to-date(e.g., Spring 1.2.x to 2.5.x) What practices can be put into place to after such an overhaul to keep a...