When I use the Web Platform installer on Vista x64 Business it doesn't list any of the applications (such as DotNetNuke or SubText). Has anyone got it to work on Vista 64? ...
Are the programs included in the Web Platform Installer all free? I was under the impression that it was all open-source, free software. But it looks like at least nService isn't: http://www.avensoft.com/nservice.html ...
I wonder if I can automate WPI actions to setup a dev box in unattended mode, either with command line options or a configuration file. It looks like WPI takes a "URL" as a command line parameter but I have no idea what format the response should be in, and what it allows in general. ...
I am pondering using the Web Platform Installer to quickly set up a dev environment in Windows XP. Will the IIS installed by the Web Platform Installer still have the 40 connection limit applied? ...
I tried to install Amplifeeder today with the Web Platform Installer. When I arrived at the database setup I had to fill out some informations like "db admin user/password" and user username/password. Using SQL Express I do not have any username/password (neither admin or user). How should I be able to install applications with the WPI...
I went to http://www.asp.net/mvc/ to try to install ASP.NET MVC. I didn't know, but MVC is now at version 2. There's a nifty thing called the Microsoft "Web Platform Installer" (WPI) which basically is a small installer-driver tool that presents a menu of things I might want to install, to do web things on Windows. On the menu are th...
I Installed Microsoft's Asp.net MVC 2 using the Web PI (on Windows XP) but it is never marked as installed! i have found the "system.Web.Mvc.dll" in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET MVC 2\Assemblies" so i'm pretty sure it's indeed installed but i cannot create a new Asp.net MVC project in Visual Studio 2008 because the option...
I have a large Web Application ( ErPwith 11 subsystem) and I want tocreate a setup for itwith Microsoft WebPI. Currently We send our application for customers once a week (for weekly updates). We usefollowing tools in this application, So How to create a setup for out project toconfigure it in client IIS automatically List item .netF...
I was trying to install Joomla on my machine .. so i ran the microsoft web platform and choose joomla Mysql and other tools went well .. BUT joomla it self isn't installed giving the following error : This product did not install successfully: the database 'my_site_db' could not be created Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (usi...
I am going to be moving all my websites to a Windows Web Server 2008 R2 machine. I have installed it in a virtual machine to test that my websites work with it. I have noticied that there is a program called Web Platform Installer. I have used it to install a few sites but I was just thinking is it a security risk using this? Would it b...