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Quick Tip - Windows Store apps and StoreManifest Lately, a Windows Store app that I help to build was published to the Windows Store. Not a day passed and the customer contact us with a problem they are having. As it seems, the app exists in the Windows Store but it doesn’t appear in the store search results. After a quick investigation we learned that the customer license was OEM channel license and as such the app was deployed by default exclusively to the OEM channel and to public use. Solving...
Creating a Code First Database Initializer Strategy Yesterday I helped a colleague with his ASP.NET MVC 3 site deployment. That colleague implemented the data access layer using EF4.1 Code First. One of the restrictions that he had was that he didn’t have database permissions to create a new database and couldn’t use SQL Express or SQL CE in his application. Instead he had an empty database for his disposal in the hosting environment without a way to run SQL scripts… In such a situation the provided...
Quick Tip – Including Empty Directory While Deploying a Web Application During this week I had to deploy an ASP.NET MVC 3 web application to a host environment using web deploy. The problem I faced was the deployment of an empty directory which is being used by the application. By design, when using web deploy tool in Visual Studio it skips empty directories when packaging a web application. So How can you deploy this empty directory and overcome this problem? The solution is to put an empty stub...
Installing a Production Server for ASP.NET MVC 2 – Part 2 A few days ago I helped a client to solve a problem they had when they deployed an ASP.NET MVC 2 application. In a previous post I wrote about how you can install a production server in order to run ASP.NET MVC 2 application. The client team have installed the server according to the AspNetMVC2 MSI installer section (in my post) and then they used Phil Haack’s IIS6 Extension-less URLs solution to enable the routing engine. Life was beautiful...
Installing a Production Server for ASP.NET MVC 2 Two days ago I was asked to help with a production server installation. In the customer environment they built an ASP.NET MVC 2 application which they wanted to deploy. I found a very excellent post that Jon Galloway wrote about this subject and used it in at customer. In the post I’ll summarize some of the options that I used when we installed the production server for ASP.NET MVC 2 . Web Platform Installer I wrote about the WebPI in the past...