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End of life of IBM JDK/JRE 5?

Is there an announced end of life/end of support-date for the ibm jdk 5 (on Solaris/SPARC and Linux/x64)? ...

WiX major upgrade doesn't run when I remove a merge module from the project

Hello, I've got a WiX project that includes the installation of Visual C++ 2008 runtime components for x86 with a separated merge module. Unfortunately there's a well known issue with that .msm with MSI v4.5. To be more specific the .msm custom action SxSUninstallCA takes 20 minutes to complete on uninstall. So, long story short, I de...

Upgrading from Eclipse Galileo to Helios

Whats the best way to upgrade from Galileo to Helios whilst still preserving my settings and plugins? Thanks ...

Upgrade Android Application outside Market

Hey, We have a set of 3-5 android applications that we have developed for an enterprise to integrate with our back-end. How do we create an installer system that upgrades applications automatically. We were thinking of getting version numbers and querying the backend to get current versions and downloading them. How do I get the versio...

Possible to update Adobe AIR runtime thru AIR application?

I've an Adobe AIR 1.5 application which uses ApplicationUpdater framework to update itself. I am planning to use new features of AIR 2.0 but I am not sure that all the clients installed with my AIR application will have AIR 2.0 installed. I know that I can detect the current runtime version but is there a way I can install the new runti...

Upgrade SQLite database from one version to another?

I am getting an error from Logcat saying that a certain column (in my SQLiteOpenHelper subclass) does not exist. I thought I could upgrade the database by changing the DATABASE_CREATE string. But apparently not, so how can I (step-by-step) upgrade my SQLite Database from version 1 to version 2? I apologize if the question seems "noobish"...

Getting ready to convert from Python 2.x to 3.x

As we all know by now (I hope), Python 3 is slowly beginning to replace Python 2.x. Of course it will be many MANY years before most of the existing code is finally ported, but there are things we can do right now in our version 2.x code to make the switch easier. Obviously taking a look at what's new in 3.x will be helpful, but what ar...

How do you handle upgrades of software you develop?

I develop c# desktop software for medium-sized companies, and I'm looking for a good strategy to deploy software upgrades to my customers. How do you handle this? Do you use windows installer? Is it a better choise to develop my custom upgrade program? Have you already developed similar things? Do you have some best practice to sh...

Updating iPhone application from 3.0 to iOS4

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knows of any articles relating to upgrading an iPhone application from 3.0 to iOS4. (Thanks for this iWasRobbed). While the application still runs on iOS4, it will not run on the iPhone 4, but does on my iPhone 3G. When I deploy the app on the iPhone 4, the Default screen loads and it will sit there ...

Can you upgrade sqlite3 version on your android?

Hi I'm writing an app which uses the Foreign Key Constraints which support was only just brought in for on version 2.2, and my phone is 2.1 Is there any way to upgrade the version of sqlite3 on the htc desire or any other android phone when your application installs? ...

Making WordPress Plugin Update Process

My client has asked me to make a WordPress Plugin that people must purchase. Therefore, it is not put into the WordPress.org plugin repository and is not updatable by default from the Plugins menu in wp-admin. Is there a best practice way for making the plugin updatable? As in, showing an update on the dashboard, plugin options panel, a...

SharePoint 2007 to 2010 upgrade error: Duplicate content type name was found

I'm in the process of doing an upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to 2010 using the database attach method. During the database upgrade I'm getting the following error: Feature upgrade incomplete for Feature 'PublishingSite' (Id: 'f6924d36-2fa8-4f0b-b16d-06b7250180fa') in Site 'http://intranet'. Exception: A duplicate content type name "Resou...

iPhone save data getting deleted on upgrade?

I have an app in the app store, and just got a message from a user telling me that upon upgrading to a newer version of the app, their saved data all disappeared. Is there a distinctly wrong way to save data on the iphone that would cause data loss upon upgrading the app to a new version? Here is the code I'm using to load & save, whic...

Uninstall VS2008 after VS2010 Upgrade?

I recently bought and installed VS2010 Professional Upgrade on a system where I had VS2008 installed. I had been told on a Microsoft discussion forum that the Upgrade version required VS2008 to already be installed. Fine. So now that it's done I still have VS2008 sitting there, taking up space, even though I'm using VS2010. Is the...

Calling upgraded .NET webservice fromn legacy 1.1 code - SoapException

Hi all, I recently upgraded a .NET 1.1 webservice to .NET 3.5. After the upgraded web service was deployed our .NET 1.1 applications referencing this web service all threw the following exception: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Server did not recognize the value of HTTP Header SOAPAction.... The .NET 1.1 applications ha...

.NET ApplicationSettingsBase Should I call Upgrade() every time I load?

We have application settings derived from ApplicationSettingsBase. When we push a new version of our app we need to call // // Summary: // Updates application settings to reflect a more recent installation of the // application. public virtual void Upgrade(); (from the meta-data) now there are some tricky ways to de...

PHP script "update process" management tutorials

Hi, We are creating a php script project; which we will be selling to customers. The customers can host the script on their web server. We would like to develop an update or upgrade process for this script. Means if a customer is using the version 1.2 of the script and we have released the new version 1.3 of the script, the users w...

Upgrading a PHP/MYSQL application?

I'm looking for inputs into how I can manage the upgrade process itself of a homegrown php/mysql application. Meaning, if we have a 'stable' version of our php/mysql application working on our production server, and we now want to upgrade it to the next version that we've worked on - how do we go about doing that elegantly? What practice...

How to know that app version changed in GWT?

Hi, I have a use case where my GWT application is running on a client browser and I stop my tomcat and update the relevant WAR. What I'd like to happen is that once I load the tomcat every existing client will be reloaded automatically so they will be using the correct version of the application. Currently I'm facing two problems: I do...

Error when trying to build anything after installing Xcode 3.2.3

I just recently installed the latest verson of Xcode as well as the ios 4.0.2 sdk with the disk image downloaded off of the apple developer site named xcode_3.2.3_andios_4.0.2.dmg. My past version of xcode came off of the snow leopard install disk. After the install I get an error when I try to build anything including a new project that...