I have developed a Windows-based project using C# and MySQL. Now I want to deploy this project to my client.
How to create an Installer (package)?
How to dump the database into the client's system?
Note:
Applications will be installed across multiple systems -- each system has their own database
System doesn't have MySQL installed (installation is not preferred).
This is a completely standalone application, not related to any servers.
Problem: I cannot ask the end user to install MySQL in their system to be able to export, dump, and import in every system.
Required: A package installer which installs my project along with MySQL patches and required data in database.
You can create an installation package using install shield
Other alternatives
http://karcollection.blogspot.in/2012/05/mysql-silent-installation-in-windows.html
http://karcollection.blogspot.in/2012/05/mysql-silent-installation-in-windows.html
Hi have you used MySQL just because its a freely available database product?
by the sound of what your asking would SQL CE not be a better database option?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Server_Compact
As far as i know with SQL CE you can embed the database into the application and would not need to install a database server on the client computer.
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I have a C# application that I want to install on my clients computers. It has a SQL Server database connection so that it can store data. I want to create a installer so than I can install the app on clients computer.
So far I tried Installer shield and advanced installer and I could not manage to pull it off.
NOTE: I can't install Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio on clients computer due to toughness.
NOTE: I'm using Visual Studio 2019 with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 2017 and .NET 4.5 and DevExpress and because I'm using DevExpress I have some reference files to copy to client directory.
If the users are not sharing their data with one another, you don't need SQL Server to begin with. There are other data storage options, ones that don't require an enterprise grade client-server database.
Your app can use a local database such as SQLite. You can use files - JSON or XML allow for easy parsing from C#.
I have create a Windows application in WPF using Visual Studio 2013, and I'm using MySQL as database, now I want to include MySQL as a distributable package in my setup file.
I am new to development and have very little idea about deploying the software, and i have been searching over the internet but hardly finds any good article which explains the steps to perform the task.
A MySQL database is supposed to be setup on a (remote) database server that the client applications connect to. You don't (or at least you shouldn't) set up a server on each workstation where your client application is installed on.
What you probably want is a self-contained database that can be shipped with your application and run "as-is" without any remote servers or specific setup.
SQLite is a popular example of such a database.
Getting started with SQLite in C#: http://blog.tigrangasparian.com/2012/02/09/getting-started-with-sqlite-in-c-part-one/
Use this:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=UnniRavindranathan-MSFT.MicrosoftVisualStudio2013InstallerProjects
And then follow this:
http://geekswithblogs.net/TarunArora/archive/2014/04/24/visual-studio-2013-installer-projects-ndash-hello-world-installer.aspx
There will be settings which you will be setting when creating installer with the wizard, one will be like pre-requisites for the program and will ask you for a MSI location for that program. Dump the location of your LocalDB or whatever MySQL software that you are using (Popular ones are SQLite/SQL Server Express). When the user starts to install the program it will make them install your SQL prerequisite software before moving onto installing your program.
I was with the choice of SQLite as database for easy distribution of my offline c# desktop application (WPF / Winforms) but currently cornered to MySQL database due to IRD certification.
My main concern is that I want to know If I could use MySQL database for offline desktop application and distribute .exe via URL for easy unattended installation.
Is it possible?
As shown on SQLite's page Appropriate Uses For SQLite, a client/server database like MySQL would work better for client/server applications, high-volume websites, very large datasets, or high concurrency. Nothing of this applies to your offline application, so you should use a database that was designed to be embedded (not necessarily SQLite).
MySQL has an embedded server library which can be linked directly into an application. When using C#, the MySQL library is linked into the .NET MySQL database driver, so using the embedded server would require recompiling this driver. And such linking will trigger MySQL's GPL license. And:
The libmysqld embedded server library is deprecated as of MySQL 5.7.17 and will be removed in MySQL 8.0.
It would be possible to install the standalone MySQL server yourself; this is described in Installing MySQL on Microsoft Windows Using a noinstall Zip Archive.
However, this would still run the MySQL server as a separate process or service, and this could conflict with other installations on the machine; it would be your installer's responsibility to configure that MySQL instance correctly for whatever environment it encounters on the target machine.
I had developed a WPF application, and its backend is a SQL Server CE .SDF file. In setup and deployment project I added .SDF file in it
The issue is: to access and get records from the .SDF file we require an additional software. Please find the below Link
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=17876
It has 2 exe files
64 Bit
86/32 Bit
Visual Studio directly installs this software when we install VS
On a client system, I didn't find these files so I am unable to access the .SDF file and get records from it
I need to Copy these files in Application folder and Automatically Install it if the above software is not Present in the PC
Now I am Manually Installing these software(exe ) in Each PC
You're mistaken - to deploy a SQL Server CE 4.0 based application, you do NOT need to deploy and/or install any additional software to your client system - it suffices to include the necessary, relevant SQL Server CE 4.0 DLL's into your application (into the bin or lib folder or something), and just ship those files with your application. That's all you need - no server-side or client-side install needed ! (That's the WHOLE POINT of using SQL Server CE, after all!)
See these links for in-depth descriptions of how to do it:
Right here on Stackoverflow:
How to deploy SQL Server Compact 4.0
Another way to do it:
How to deploy the SQL Server Compact Edition software locally
Official MSDN documentation:
How to deploy a SQL Server Compact 4.0 database with an application
I have one problem with service base database, I have used it in one of my application but I dont know if user who'll use it need to have something installed to be able to run application (like you need to have installed NET framework for c# applications)
Note: This is windows application
It depends on what database engine you're using. SQL Server/SQL Express/Oracle/MySQL require you install the application on the machine before it'll work. databases engines like SQLite and Firebird are just Dll's, so you can include then in your project.
If the file is an MDF that's a SQL Server file - you need to install SQL server, or SQL express.
You can include it with your app and do it silently:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sqlsetupandupgrade/thread/7180e4dc-5c1e-4501-83d7-6882abb1f04e/
You will need to install the relevant database engine with the correct service name, and create the database and relevant objects on installation.