deployment hell with .NET based applications
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Just spamming here... But I think the rant I just posted on the Microsoft Forum has some substance: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxsetup/thread/ef061340-9ddc-4219-8663-64d1448581e0[^]
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From the link:
As a customer I would feel... ...lost, and left alone in a jungle of words, of which I have not the faintest clue about.
That made me laugh. Thanks, a good start for the day. :-D
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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Just spamming here... But I think the rant I just posted on the Microsoft Forum has some substance: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxsetup/thread/ef061340-9ddc-4219-8663-64d1448581e0[^]
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That's an EPIC_FAIL for MS.
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Just spamming here... But I think the rant I just posted on the Microsoft Forum has some substance: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxsetup/thread/ef061340-9ddc-4219-8663-64d1448581e0[^]
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This is one of the reasons why we refuse to use .NET for commercial products. That, and the fact they don't work on Server 2008 Core.
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Just spamming here... But I think the rant I just posted on the Microsoft Forum has some substance: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxsetup/thread/ef061340-9ddc-4219-8663-64d1448581e0[^]
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ClickOnce should take care of all that theoretically. But at least in .NET 2.0 it was not without its glitches, and it's a pain in the ass to setup as well. Maybe it's a bit better with .NET 3.5.
Wout
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Just spamming here... But I think the rant I just posted on the Microsoft Forum has some substance: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxsetup/thread/ef061340-9ddc-4219-8663-64d1448581e0[^]
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Well, we deploy with no problem at all. We have our setups configured to download the appropriate dotnet installer from our own website, and it only downloads and installs if the appropriate version of dotnet does not yet exist on the system. Am I missing something?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
Just spamming here... But I think the rant I just posted on the Microsoft Forum has some substance: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxsetup/thread/ef061340-9ddc-4219-8663-64d1448581e0[^]
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MS seem to be completely incapable of keeping links from their applications to websites working. The only version of Visual Studio I have installed is 2005 Team Developer yet whenever I go to MSDN if it tries to search online it always takes me to the Visual Studio.NET 2002 home page instead. And talking of deployment, one of our applications had a problem at a client site the other day and was failing and it turned out to be the lack of the .NET 2 service pack 1. Apparently service pack 1 adds an extra overload to GC.Collect() that we were calling, so on the clients server which didn't have the service pack it just bombed out. Took ages to trace the problem due to it being hosted within IIS and having a ton of other complications associated with it. Why are they adding new methods in service packs, aren't service packs supposed to fix bugs?
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Just spamming here... But I think the rant I just posted on the Microsoft Forum has some substance: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxsetup/thread/ef061340-9ddc-4219-8663-64d1448581e0[^]
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Bill Gates would probably agree with you: Bill Gates Rant[^]
Todd Smith
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Well, we deploy with no problem at all. We have our setups configured to download the appropriate dotnet installer from our own website, and it only downloads and installs if the appropriate version of dotnet does not yet exist on the system. Am I missing something?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001so, are you using the default installer, or do you use a third party setup software?
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so, are you using the default installer, or do you use a third party setup software?
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Yeah - we used the msi installer that comes with vs2008. Keep in mind that we aren't doing anything fancy at all. Just putting some files in a folder and installing dotnet if necessary.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
Yeah - we used the msi installer that comes with vs2008. Keep in mind that we aren't doing anything fancy at all. Just putting some files in a folder and installing dotnet if necessary.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Sounds like a plan! Thanks!
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