VS Web Deployment Projects

Web Deployment Installer

2013-05-15T10:35:22.633-04:00

I have a published web site and want to create an installer to do the following : 1. create a web site in IIS and not an application 2. identify default web site and replace that or create a default web site if doesn't exist 3. create a sql server database and restore the backup or attach db files I use Web setup project but I don't know how can I do above tasks.

ASP.NET MVC 4 deployment cost

2013-05-08T14:58:42.963-04:00

I want to start a project on ASP.NET MVC 4.0 and Razor 2 engine for a customer that already has their own servers running Microsoft-IIS 7.5 and licensed Sql Server.

As for now I know I can use Visual Studio Express 2010/2012 as in-situ dev environment for free. Are there any other costs included in the deployment of a fully working APP?. Looking online apparently there is no cost for development, compiling and deploying the app with this tool.

Thank you.

modifying web.config during installation

2013-05-09T04:38:26.76-04:00

Hello All

I have one asp.net web project and i want create deployment setup (VS 2010 > Setup and deployment > Visual studio installer > web setup project) for same. but during installation i want to take database server name input's from user and according to it I want to do modify my connection string in web.config.

Is anybody have sample code/example or help link for same please share same with me.

Thanks so much in advanced .

Regards,

Atul Gaikwad

about video web site ?

2013-04-05T10:03:41.81-04:00

Hello

vps have 4GB ram, 100 Mbit bandwith and unlimeted trafic.

How many users can watch video at same time ?

Thanks

Generating connection string in web.config while loading dll in application

2013-03-29T06:53:00.037-04:00

Hi frnz..

I have written a class library file and use the dll of this file in web application

i write some code in this dll like generating connection string as well as appSettings in web.config file

but problem is that.... i want to generate this connection string and appsettings data while adding this dll in web application instead of running the application

just i elaborate more to better understanding...

when i add dll in my application it added successfully
no problem about it.
when i run my application then connection string generate in web.config

bt what happen with this...
all sessions are cleared

hence i want to generate this connection string at the time of adding this dll in application

so is there any event handler or loader is available which will help to get me result

Crystal Report deployment Connection string problem

2008-12-06T08:21:37.1-05:00

I have created a crystal report by using visual studio 2005 wizard,

and at the time of creating set up i used merge module

so after intallation of my application it put connection string of report in app.cofig

but if i want to change server name than it doesn't reading modified connection string of report

can any body tell me what i am missing

Thanks a lot in advance

ASP.NET Sites/Pages Getting "Crossed" (Displaying Incorrect Data"

2013-03-19T21:39:37.87-04:00

UPDATE: This has been solved. Turns out I was using the same session variable name to store some data and then moving it back to a dataset rather than making a round trip for each request. Then, the dataset was used to generate some tables and one of those was the datasource for the gridview. Since I used duplicate table names and dataset names and then compounded it with using duplicate session variable names, the session variable was used to populate the dataset in BOTH pages instead of only one.

Sorry for the short-term question.

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Hi, everyone:

I'm working on supporting an ASP classic intranet site. I'm also trying to implement new solutions on that site with ASP.NET. I have Framework 4.0 installed on IIS 6.0 running on Win2K3 server SP3.

I developed the sites in Visual Studio 2010, but I'm not a professional developer and these are my first tries at this. When finally I got the sites doing what I wanted them to do the correct way, I deployed them using the Copy Web Site option in Visual Studio. The folders containing all of my files were put into a subfolder on the server.

When the pages load, they seem to act like ONE site, even though they're in separate folders in the directory. For clarity, the structure on the network looks like this:

\\servername\web_directory\customer service\OpenOrders

So, when I navigate to the URL of the page, I get the page and it loads fine. As I stated, there are TWO I've deployed, both are in the Customer Service folder. The first folder I copied was called ShipInfo. The second came about a week later. It uses the same general principles, but gets its data from another source elsewhere on the network. It lives in a folder called OpenOrders. So, one of them lives in

\\servername\web_directory\customer service\ShipInfo

and the other lives in

\\servername\web_directory\customer service\OpenOrders.

Inside those folders are the files and pages which run what Visual Studio called a web site. When I copied the files up using Visual Studio, they went fine and everything seemed to be running well.

But today, I noticed that both sites display the same data, even though nothing has changed about the files. So now, the shipment information page shows the open order page's gridview, even though they're in separate folders. When I open the shipment info page, I see the open order gridview. When I open the open order page, I see the open order gridview.

It's like they share a single data source, but they don't. They each have their own data access routines and access separate data sources (one comes from an Excel spreadsheet in one network share, the other gets its data from an Access database on a different network share).

There hasn't been any change to the files except to refine one of the dropdown boxes. I don't recall this problem when I built them, and I certainly don't see this issue when I run them in the development server. But now I don't know whether they ever worked (I deployed them originally in November 2012).

Please, anyone, help a confused and frustrated newbie figure out what went wrong! I know almost nothing about IIS, so I haven't done much, but I was able to learn enough to get the server to serve ASP.NET and ASP pages both. Like I said before, they run fine, no errors, but when they display their data, it's like they're sharing it between them somehow.

Have I done something wrong in the way they were deployed? did I miss a configuration somewhere? did I miss doing something on the IIS server I should have done?

HALP!

...and, as always, thank you. :)

-JH

MSI fails with error code 1603

2013-03-15T11:43:30.573-04:00

My web application installation is intermittantly failing with error code 1603 on 2008 R2 with IIS 7 and IIS6 compatibility installed.

Here is an excerpt from the log file:

INFO   : [03/15/2013 00:40:14:632] [ApplyWebFolderProperties                ]: Getting web folder property token...
INFO   : [03/15/2013 00:40:14:632] [ApplyWebFolderProperties                ]: Token is '/LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT/FooSite/Services'.
INFO   : [03/15/2013 00:40:14:632] [ApplyWebFolderProperties                ]: Key path is '/LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT/FooSite/Services'.
INFO   : [03/15/2013 00:40:14:648] [ApplyWebFolderProperties                ]: Opening key '/LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT/FooSite/Services'.
INFO   : [03/15/2013 00:40:14:648] [ApplyWebFolderProperties                ]: Opening key '/LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT/FooSite.
INFO   : [03/15/2013 00:40:14:648] [ApplyWebFolderProperties                ]: Adding key '/Services'.
INFO   : [03/15/2013 00:40:14:648] [ApplyWebFolderProperties                ]: Closing key...
ERROR : [03/15/2013 00:40:15:163] [ApplyWebFolderProperties                ]: FAILED: -2147024864
ERROR : [03/15/2013 00:40:15:163] [ApplyWebFolderProperties                ]: FAILED: -2147024864
ERROR : [03/15/2013 00:40:15:163] [ApplyWebFolderProperties                ]: Custom Action failed with code: '32'
ERROR : [03/15/2013 00:40:15:163] [ApplyWebFolderProperties                ]: Custom Action failed with code: '32'
INFO   : [03/15/2013 00:40:15:163] [ApplyWebFolderProperties                ]: Custom Action completed with return code: '32'
CustomAction WEBCA_ApplyWebFolderProperties returned actual error code 1603 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox)

-2147024864 translates as "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process".

Which file? Which process? iisreset or net stop iisadmin do not help.

$ sign does not appears from the IIS deployed application

2013-03-14T12:49:34.463-04:00

My web application displays a pdf export from the crystal report.

When deployed on IIS, the report pdf export displays $ for calculated fields as a square box in chrome.

In firefox the $ symbol is missing.

On the localhost the $ sign is correctly displayed, however not when deployed from the IIS.

I have applied the en-US culture in the IIS globalization settings, however the issue is not fixed.

Any ideas what settings could have gone wrong?

Web Custom Folder asp.net version

2013-03-01T16:31:47.983-05:00

I have a VS 2010 Web Setup Project. How do I set the ASP.NET version for each of the Web Custom Folders I might be adding?

The problem is that after I run the setup the primary "Web Application Folder" is installed with ASP.NET ver 4.0 which is exactly what I want but any other "Web Custom Folder" is installed with ASP.NET ver 2.0.

System.Configuration.Provider.ProviderException: This property cannot be set for anonymous users.

2013-03-08T06:00:25.17-05:00

Hey!! I have created a simple web page, that is generating the error mentioned above. Can you please help me out in in??
Here is more with this error when displayed on browser:

Line 10:     protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
Line 11:     {
Line 12: Profile.preferences.Theme = "Retro"; Line 13:         this.LiteralTheme.Text = Profile.preferences.Theme;
Line 14:     }

<div>

[ProviderException: This property cannot be set for anonymous users.]
   System.Web.Profile.ProfileBase.SetInternal(String propertyName, Object value) +2371783
   System.Web.Profile.ProfileBase.set_Item(String propertyName, Object value) +80
   ProfileGrouppreferences.set_Theme(String value) +36
   ProfileObject.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in c:\Users\AADIL FAROOQUI\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\WebSites\Lesson4\ProfileObject.aspx.cs:12
   System.Web.Util.CalliEventHandlerDelegateProxy.Callback(Object sender, EventArgs e) +51
   System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +92
   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +54
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +772

<div>and here is the web.config file:</div> <div>

<system.web>
<compilation debug="false" targetFramework="4.5" />
<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5" />
<profile>
<properties>
<group name="preferences">
<add name="Theme"/>
<add name="Currency"/>
</group>
</properties>
</profile>
</system.web>

</configuration>

</div>

IIS Subdomain Host Name

2013-03-06T23:56:37.7-05:00

Hello,

I want have this urls to my site, when you can put anything before .domain.com but only for domain.com:

domain.com
a.domain.com
b.domain.com
[any].domain.com
...

IIS does not allow the host name: *.domain.com

How to set this on IIS 7?

Setup project and IIS

2013-03-04T21:07:04.377-05:00

Hi,

I am looking for some suggestions on creating a setup project for a web-based application hosted on IIS. You may also refer to the following post relating to the same topic.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15210940/setup-project-and-iis

I have an existing application which has a few .aspx files along with few other directories. The application has lots of other non-ASP.Net files such as exes and dll's.

I am not quite sure whether I should create a "Web" setup project or create a simple setup project instead?

I am looking for some advice on this.

Any kind of inputs are appreciated!

Thanks.

I can’t login into my Login.aspx page after I copied it via VWD2008 Express into my IIS 5.1.

2013-01-27T20:30:46.233-05:00

I need to host ASP.NET website on my personal computer or on server within home pc, please help me…

I am trying to run my own web site on my home PC … I an using : IIS 5.1 Windows XP Pro Microsoft SQL  Server 2008 R2, Microsoft  Visual Web Dev 2008 Express.

I can login on Internet Explorer into my website in debugging mode via:
C:\Documents and Settings\FOREST\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Websites\FOREST1\
http://localhost:1000/FOREST%202011%341/Login.aspx

But I can’t login into my Login.aspx page  after I copied it via VWD2008 Express into my IIS 5.1.


Angelika
auroran@yandex.ru

building website has lots of problems with syswow64

2013-01-30T15:57:54.35-05:00

I get these in my output when I build, and my site takes forrrrrreeeevvvvvverrrrrrr to finished loading.... very bad...

'WebDev.WebServer40.EXE': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'WebDev.WebServer40.EXE': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\mscoree.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'WebDev.WebServer40.EXE': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\kernel32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'WebDev.WebServer40.EXE': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\KernelBase.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'WebDev.WebServer40.EXE': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\advapi32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'WebDev.WebServer40.EXE': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcrt.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'WebDev.WebServer40.EXE': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sechost.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'WebDev.WebServer40.EXE': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rpcrt4.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'WebDev.WebServer40.EXE': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sspicli.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'WebDev.WebServer40.EXE': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cryptbase.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'WebDev.WebServer40.EXE': Loaded 'C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\mscoreei.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'WebDev.WebServer40.EXE': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\shlwapi.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'WebDev.WebServer40.EXE': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\gdi32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'WebDev.WebServer40.EXE': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\user32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'WebDev.WebServer40.EXE': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\lpk.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'WebDev.WebServer40.EXE': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\usp10.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'WebDev.WebServer40.EXE': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\imm32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file

Customize Deployment in Visual Studio 2008

2010-09-20T14:00:31.06-04:00

hi all,

I need to deploy my application using setup. I worked some what in setup project avaiable in 2008 like web setup and windows application setup. Now i have some customized scenario. So please read the following scenario and give a good suggestions and steps to do that..

Scenario:

My main application is Web application. When my setup started install this web application with and then continue to database setup. After successfull, setup continue like optional compents setup like our msdn setup. Here we have more windows services to install. Some windows services are mandatoru and some are optional like extra feature to the user. I think i show all the services with checkbox so the optional services can select by the user. After confirm each service will install one by one. The setup finished after all the services installed..

Please guid me which is best to way to creat deploment project like this...

Some of my doubts..

1. I created setup msi for each windows services by adding service project as custom action and this setup work successfully.. How can i continusly install all these services one by one from mail setup?

2. I have nearly 10 windoes services. Visul studio not have a interface with these much checkboxes. So how to cusotmize interface to add more checkboxes?

If service setup is like addon to the main setup i am very happy because i can install services only with out main web application

How to send parameters to a WebSetup project (Visual Studio 2010) through Command prompt.

2012-07-26T05:56:23.3-04:00

I have created a web Setup project. In the UI of the setup there are fields to be filled,some are text boxes some are drop down Lists boxes all( Default ones). Example Fields: Virtual Directory,Application pool etc
I need to set these parameters and install the setup thru Command prompt. Setup has to be a silent installation.
I tried using commands like /quiet /a /i etc of msiexec,But I wasn't able to send parameters and also Install the setup silently.
How do I send parameters thru command prompt and run the setup ( silent Installation) simultaneously ?

Kindly help me out .

problem while publishing website

2013-01-07T12:48:09.633-05:00

I am using mysql database with .net connecter 6.5 in my web application

everything is working fine while developing

but while publishing the getting error as fallows

Error 1 External component has thrown an exception.

and publishing fails

pls give solution on this I got stuck at this

Server Error in '/' Application.

Configuration Error

Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS.

Source Error:

Line 11: 		<customErrors mode="Off"/>
Line 12:     <compilation debug="true"/>
Line 13: <authentication mode="None"/> Line 14: 		<membership>
Line 15: 			<providers>

Source File: D:\Sites\mahtelecom.com\public_html\backadmin\web.config Line: 13

<div class="expandable">Show Additional Configuration Errors:</div>

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.0.30319.272

I searched a lot in net for the solution of this error but failed to fix the problem.

Can anybody pls suggest me the solution.

You can view the error message by this link : http://mahtelecom.com/backadmin

N:B: I used mysql as the database of this project.

Deploying a website with VS 2010

2013-01-02T19:15:01.597-05:00

When deploying a website do I have to go to the target website and do anything?

I cannot seem to get it to depoly and I suspect I must do several things on the target server for it to work.

Thanks!