When I use the Web Platform installer on Vista x64 Business it doesn't list any of the applications (such as DotNetNuke or SubText).
Has anyone got it to work on Vista 64?
I'm running Vista Home Premium x64 SP2 and can see plenty of web applications with no problem. Is it possible there is some prerequisite software or libraries you need to install (say, using the WPI) before you can install web applications?
The first step I'd take is to uninstall WPI, restart your computer, and reinstall WPI. It sounds so basic but the simplest fixes are so often sufficient.
Is everything on your system up-to-date?
It should work with Vista x64 Business edition. The application catalog is downloaded from the web via http requests. You might try using a tool like Fiddler Web Debugger to determine if the app is able to connect properly. You may have a firewall or network issue preventing it from fetching the list of applications.
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I currently have an Ubuntu 18.04 environment. For our course, we need to have Visual Studio, ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server and IIS installed. One solution was to install the Windows OS on VMware/VirtualBox, but since Windows OS on a virtual machine is a bit heavy on my laptop, is there any other slightly "light" OS that allows me to install the 4 requirements already mention?
As Lex Li says the IIS is Windows only,VS is only available on Windows and Mac. So you could only use the windows.
Here is a workaround, if you are familiar with the VS code, you could use VS code develop asp.net application, then you could use docker to run the asp.net application with IIS.
More details about how to use vs code in the linux, you could refer to below article:
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux
About how to use vs code to test application with docker, you could refer to below article:
https://medium.com/#agavatar/working-with-docker-in-visual-studio-code-756ea8b32abc
I have created an ASP.NET website which accesses a DB. The DB can will be alrady installed at target machine. It can be anything from SQL server 2000 to SQL server 2008. Further more the target OS can be anything from Windows server 2000 to Windows 7. I have kept the target .Net framework version as .Net 2.0 to keep matters simple. Also, the target machine can be x86 or x64 or Itanium.
Do I need to create separate builds for different target platforms?
How do I create an Installer which will :
Put this website on a Virtual Directory of IIS server(can be any IIS version)
Detect the target platform and install the appropriate build
I need to do this either using the standard MSI installer of VS2008 or using WiX or any open source installer for that matter. Please help me with this since I am new to deployment projects.
Thanks
You can use softwares like InstallShield in order to create your installer. but InstallShield is not for free I think.
such programs have their own scripting language that simplify the operations that you want to do, like detecting which operating system is installed or which SQL Server version is installer, beside that they allows you to communicate with a certain function in a dll. You can call this function to do some logic or some validation.
You can use WiX to create an MSI that does what you've listed. It is free, and as well as including functionality for what you want also allows custom scripting for any custom logic needed.
We have built an ASP.NET application in 4.0 (we can change it to 3.5 if necessary) with a SQL Server database.
I am looking to create an installation package (exe or msi) so that I can provide this file to my clients and they can install it on all of their laptops. This asp.net application will be running on laptops that don't have access to the internet.
Some of these laptops have XP Home, Win 7 Home, and other windows operating systems and not all of them have IIS installed. Is there some sort of simple application that I can use to create an Installer application where it will install IIS or some other web server, SQL Express, and .NET framework 4.0. If these applications are installed already, then it shouldn't install it. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
You could accomplish this using a Setup Project in Visual Studio.
I know about Web Deployment Packages. See if that helps in some way.
Check this extensive list of useful links:
Overview Post for Web Deployment in VS 2010
My company (Comet Way) makes a product that is designed for this: http://www.neokernel.com. Our customers use it when they need to access web databases offline on laptops. It's an assembly that you can distribute with your product without requiring a separate install, it works on any machine with .NET (or Mono), and it implements a full featured secure web server that runs any website that IIS will run.
Hope this helps,
Damien
Is it ok to develop ASP.NET web applications on MacBook Pro ?
.NET is only available for Windows. There's the Mono project, which is not affiliated with Microsoft, which aims to create an open source .NET runtime and developer tools, usable on *NIX (including Mac OS X). If you want to develop .NET applications under Mac OS, this is your only choice.
Speaking of a MacBook though, you can install Windows on it using Boot Camp or run it in a virtual machine and develop in Visual Studio like on any other Windows box. And this is ok, I don't think anybody will confiscate your Mac for doing so.
If you have Windows running on the Mac then it is OK.
Another way is to use some .NET IDE for Mac (e.g. MonoDevelop)
New from Microsoft, IDE for Mac, Linux and Windows: https://code.visualstudio.com/Download
The best method to do that would be to install windows 10 with bootcamp and then install .NET . The steps involved are pretty straight forward. Just open bootcamp and create the partition and select the ISO of windows. Once installed, tap the options key on boot to boot to windows. If everything is smooth, you can continue the development, else, just open bootcamp again and delete the partition.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/software-download/windows10 - open this on mac to get the legal windows image. This will be valid only for a limited time
Apparently Windows Vista Home Basic and Premium both do not ship with integrated windows authentication for IIS (You need Business edition)... so does anyone know how to get windows authentication installed for IIS?
I went into Programs and Features > Turn Windows Features on or off. Then in the Windows Features popup I navigated to... Internet Information Serivces > World Wide Web Services > Security > ???
Under security the only options that were there are:
Basic Authentication
IP Security
Request Filtering
URL Authorization
I found this fix but it gave me this error message:
The upgrade Patch cannot be installed by Windows Installer service because the program to be upgraded may be missing, or the upgrade patch may update a different version of the program. Verify that the program exists on your computer and that you have the correct upgrade patch.
So that makes me think it's because the fix is for Visual Studio 2005, and I'm using Visual Studio 2008. Anyone know a fix that applies to Visual Studio 2008?
I don't think you can get it to work in Vista Home Premium because the Home editions do not support domain authentication; only workgroup authentication. You have to get one of the Business editions or Ultimate.