Can I use the ClickOnce deployment method to deploy and auto update applications targeted for the windows mobile platform (eg smartphone or pocket pc)?
True Click-Once is not supported. You might look at these articles to give you a better feel for what can be done:
MSDN Article on Deployment Patterns
Alex Feinman's article on self-updating apps
You can also package the app into a CAB File that you put on the web for OTA deployment. There are also a couple third-party providers like CloudSync and mProdigy (used neither so YMMV) for OTA as well.
No. Hopefully in the future.
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Two years ago, I barely managed to make this service work.
The documentation seems to be very dated, Microsoft isn't actively pushing this and the sample code Microsoft supplies is no longer using supported libraries.
Has anyone got access to or can they supply a valid sample Android/IOS sample code that uses the Azure notification Hub?
I'm sorry to hear that's been your experience. You can find an up-to-date sample Android and iOS applications in our GitHub repositories here:
https://github.com/Azure/azure-notificationhubs-android/tree/main/notification-hubs-sample-app-java
https://github.com/Azure/azure-notificationhubs-ios/ (Several sample applications available at root level of repository)
We have window application developed in .Net and want perfect deployment technology
which enables easy application installation and upgrading.
The client can be accessed from anywhere in the world where an Internet connection is available.
In future we want the same deployment technology for provide support user's who use Window 7 and
Window 8
Looking at the the initial requirement we have decided to use Click Once technology
but found many issues in the deployment. They are below
You will need to sign a Click Once application with trusted certificate
otherwise it is blocked and instantly removed by Antivirus program.
ClickOnce may not be supported by all browsers , the behavior are different in IE and
other browser
ClickOnce to doesn't install components into the GAC , doesn't installed in the program
files rather it install and maintain user wise in the client machine.
ClickOnce has issue with proxy network and unable to customize the setup screen.
Community has faced many issues with ClickOnce Setup and does not have enough solution or
updates on Click Once technology solution
Do we have perfect deployment solution for window app over internet other than ClickOnce? Which methodology is widely used for window app deployment over internet?
Which deployment technology provide better success rate for easily maintenance and version update for the Window app over internet ?
You could build it as a standard executable and create an installer. A good way to make an installer is InnoSetup. However, the user has to have .Net Framework already installed.
As of Windows Vista, version 2.0 is included, Windows 7 includes 3.5, and Windows 8 includes 4.5. If you change the target .Net Framework of your application you can target these systems. Go to Properties > Target Framework > Choose 2.0, 3.5, or 4.5 (client profile if available).
As for updates, you should implement this in your application on your own or get another third-party updater. I don't know any good ones though.
I will try to make it simplify. I am using windows azure cloud to host our web services and databases. and these web services are accessible via URL: "https://server.mydomain.com"
now we made a few major changes to our model and hence web services as a whole. This breaks the API interface for older users. Now we want to deploy the latest version on URL: "https://server.mydomain.com/v2" so that old users can still access the older version.
I searched around SO and other resources but i couldnt find a definite answer how to deploy new version without messing up the old version.
Anything in right direction will be helpful.
In one of the projects I was working on, we built in a versioning scheme on top of our Web API. We used this tutorial to get started. I would recommend starting there.
Sorry for the generic answer, if you post some more specifics I will make some updates.
I'd suggest to deploy separate cloud service and use "v2.server.mydomain.com"
I haven't thought this through to completion, but it seems that if nuget is a tool for managing the inclusion of packages in a known location, could it not be used as a deployment tool for web servers (a website being just a very large package itself)?
A service running on the web server would ping a nuget server for updates, and install them when available. There would have to be some additional management (recycling app pools, making sure that all your webservers don't update at the same time etc.), but I think it could work?
Any thoughts?
Yes that's definitly on the roadmap for openrasta/openwrap, so it's not a crazy idea. Some people already have done some of that work themselves.
This sort of thing is usually known as a Continuous Integration (CI for short) setup. You could probably cobble something together with Nuget but there are already some pretty good tools out there. Cruise and TFS to name a couple.
If you're looking for a mad scientist project though, carry on and let the community know what you come up with!
I have a very large, mostly HTML/SSI site that I manage part-time and do weekly deployments on in addition do being an enterprise Magento developer. The site in question has ~5000 static HTML files and requires a lot of upkeep to manage deployments.
In addition to that site, I manage numerous Magento installs. I currently manage them from SVN and do exports/checkouts from various production and qa branches/tags.
While this is manageable, I don't get some of the things that I know build tools provide. Some of those features would be:
Automatic Minification of CSS/JS
Revision History
Multi-server deployment
Runtime configuration
Stats of broken builds/build time/deployment frequency
Integration with Testing frameworks
The three tools I've been reviewing are
Apache Ant
phpUnderControl
Capistrano (at the insistence of a friend of mine who is a RoR dev)
I briefly looked at Hudson, and had a ton of problems trying to get it up and running.
My Questions:
What is the upside/downside of going to this type of strategy?
Any hidden pitfalls that you've experienced?
Which tool do you think would best fit for the deployment/management of the HTML site?
Does anyone have experience with deploying distributed Magento from a deployment/build management system?
Thanks in advance...
Update
Still no movement here, so I'm going to ask this:
Should I rather rebuild in HTML5 Boilerplate which has Ant build scripts out of the box? This would afford me the ability to use Ant, but the build scripts are already pre-made so I have a good starting point. Your thoughts and suggestions are welcome.
I've got one more tool for you to review: Jenkins (earlyer: Hudson).
Its a great tool to run and control your builds. Furthermore you can remote the console and get notifications via Jabber protocol.