I want to create a setup for an existent .exe file. This file needs some .ocx and .dll files to run correctly. So this mentioned setup should paste these all files in a specified path and then run the .exe file.
I have tried with installshield 2010 basic and InstallScript projects but i could not create some of dialogs in the format that i wanted.
Is there any way to create this setup? Or any one may help me to work with installshield?
You might find working with another setup program easier, try the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System). It has a RegDLL function:
RegDLL "$WINDIR\OCX\vbalGrid6.ocx"
if you need that also.
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I am trying to populate a QTableview with some data. When developing under Qt Creator, data is read from build directory. Running the program each time, the QTableview keeps getting repopulated with previous data.
If I manually change the build directory each time before run, doesn't happen. But how do I solve the problem without manually changing the build directory every time I want a fresh run?
In your project directory there is a file name ProjectName.pro.user.
This file creating when you configure your project. it's XML file.
you can find this line on *.user files:
<value type="QString" key="ProjectExplorer.BuildConfiguration.BuildDirectory">C:/Users/probook/Documents/Qt/testProject/Build/Windows/Debug</value>
This line define build directory address for debug. there is a same line for Release and Profile in that file.
You can also use Qt creator to define(customize) relative directory build:
goto Qt creator, Tools, Options..., Build & Run, General, Default build directory.
More info:
Qt Creator stores user-specific project settings in a .pro.user file. You can share these settings between several projects as a .pro.shared file. It has the same XML structure as a .pro.user file, but only contains the settings to share.
Based on comment, issue seems to be data which gets saved to build directory. And solution would be to remove it before running the application.
You can add Custom Process Step, either under Projects - Build Settings -
Build Steps, or under Projects - Run Settings - Deployment, and just delete the desired data files. Exact command depends on operating system.
An alternative might be to add a command line switch, something like --development-erase-saved-data, to the application itself, and erase the files (or just not read them, or whatever). Then add that command line switch to Projects - Run Settings - Run Steps - Command Line Arguments for desired build configurations.
Adding support for this in the application itself is easier to maintain, and is almost automatically cross-platform. However, it might be a feature you don't want in the application, though in that case you might only enable it for Debug builds (with #ifdef).
As a side note, saving data to executable directory is not a good idea these days. You might want to save it for example to location returned by
QStandardPaths::writableLocation(QStandardPaths::AppDataLocation)
(See here for more info.)
I'm using QWebView to run a web app. There are 650+ files. Placing the web app's directory in the source directory does not result in the executable bundling the directory.
How do I include the entire web app directory so that the executable will be able to render the files.
Note: I have currently added index.html as a resource, and can access it with qrc:// - But since I cannot add the entire directory structure to a qrc (can I?), the executable does not include the other files.
You need to put an XML node into the .qrc file for each file you want to use using the Qt resource system.
This can be done using a simple pre-build script. Take a look at qrcgen. Quoting the blog post behind this link:
The script I created, qrcgen, takes a directory and a prefix, recursively scans the directory and generates a .qrc file with the same name as the directory scanned. It has solved my problem, and I hope it can help others. It is also available via PyPI, just "easy_install qrcgen".
In order to update the .qrc file whenever your directory contens change, you need to include this step into your build process:
For C++/Qt projects, you can add this step in the build configuration in QtCreator or add in your qmake file a system(...) statement. Note that such commands aren't portable in general. (If it's not portable, you can put some operating system conditions around multiple commands.)
For PyQt/PySide projects, I don't know how to do this, but I'm sure you find a solution for this too.
I'm using Microsoft Web Deploy to publish and update my site. (script is generated with Visual Studio). This tool removes auto-generated files and folders on update, as they are not included into install package. How to make it keep these files?
The Web Deploy command line tool has two switches that may be useful: -skip and -enableRule:DoNotDeleteRule. For information on -skip, see Web Deploy Operation Settings, and for DoNotDeleteRule, see Web Deploy Rules.
In Visual Studio, you may be able to tweak the deploy.cmd file to use these to achieve what you want. For more information, see How to: Install a Deployment Package Using the deploy.cmd File.
Having to edit the deploy.cmd files each time you generate them is a pain. I am using VS2017 and found I can set an environment variable on the server and deploy.cmd will use it. The deploy readme file says it:
Alternatively, you can specify additional flags by setting the
"_MsDeployAdditionalFlags" environment variable. These settings are
used by this batch file.
So on the server I created the environment variable:
_MsDeployAdditionalFlags=-enableRule:DoNotDeleteRule
And that did it. It now adds the rule each deploy on the server.
Using a Visual Studio 2010 ASP.net web application, I have several projects that share some JavaScript/css files. The most logical way for them to share these files is to place the files in a single folder and each project has them included with the "Add as Link" option. However, if I add the files this way when I'm debugging using either the Visual Studio Development server or debugging using a local IIS web server all requests for these files return 404 Not Found errors. If I publish the site then the files are copied but that obviously doesn't help with debugging.
Is there something I'm missing or is this a failing on VS's part?
To overcome this problem some time ago I created a 'MSBuild.WebApplication.CopyContentLinkedFiles' nuget package. This package adds MsBuild target which copies all content files added as link to project folder during build.
Note: if you use source control then it is better to add copied files (from Web Application folder) to ignore list.
I wouldn't really call that a failing, since you asked for that behavior in the first place: linked items in Visual Studio projects are actual links to external files. Those files can reside anywhere on the disk and are not copied into the project folder.
You might want to copy those files locally yourself during a pre-build event. That way, the files will remain synchronized and you won't duplicate them until your first compile.
The problem seems to be that the website runs right from your source folders, rather than from the bin folder. This means that the file will be missing, whether or not it is copied to the output folder.
It's probable that running from a local or remote web server would not have this problem, though I didn't get that working, and I'd rather not add IIS to my local machine if I don't have to.
Adding a pre-build copy command did work. Note that the current directory will be the bin folder. (You can use cd to echo the current directory to the build window if you want to see it):
If the file is in another solution, your command will look something like (three ..s: one to get out of each of bin, project, and solution folders):
copy ..\..\..\OtherSolution\OtherProject\Scripts\MyJSFile.js ..\Scripts\
If it's in the same solution, but a different project:
copy ..\..\OtherProject\Scripts\MyJSFile.js ..\Scripts
One minor issue is that the link to the file will collide with the new copy of the file, even if you don't add it to your project. As long as you make the link first, it seems to work. If you copied the file first, you'll have to manually delete the copy, and then refresh the solution explorer before before being able to add the link.
Select the link in Solution Explorer and then look at properties window and set Copy To Output Directory to Copy Always. Linked items are set to Do Not Copy by default.
BTW, you can copy many files as links very easily directly from Solution Explorer when using VSCommands 2010 extension.
See this blog post about a simple addition to your project file.
http://mattperdeck.com/post/Copying-linked-content-files-at-each-build-using-MSBuild.aspx
What tool do you use to only zip up the source code of an open souce project or choose which files you want to include for packaging? I'm using Visual Studio 2008.
You can use a version control system like Subversion to do this. All the source files relevant to your project are checked in, and you can create a second working copy in another directory, check if it compiles (i.e. if the source is complete), clean it again, and zip it up minus the .svn directories.
In Visual Studio, use an add-on like AnkhSvn to make sure all files that are in your project are added to Subversion.
You can automate the svn update and zip with any kind of scripting language (msbuild, powershell, perl, python, etc...)
But then, you could also publish the Subversion repository url and let others use that instead of a .zip file!
Are you using a continuous integration process such as CruiseControl.NET? If so you can add a build step to zip up the entire working folder after a successful release build is done and any cleanup is performed, then even save it to an FTP somewhere if needed.
If not you could still do this in the build process from inside Visual Studio by editing the project file in the post build events. Both cases could be done using the MSBuild Community Tasks since there's a Zip task along with FTP and some others.
If you do an SVN Export instead of SVN Checkout, assuming you're using SVN, then the .svn folders won't be created so there shouldn't be any cleanup to perform before zipping up the folder since you'll have an exact copy of your trunk folder.
Ok, I have found 2 ways you can do this
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000368.html
or
http://code.google.com/p/treetrim/