I'm planning on creating some sort of "media-manager".
Add your bluray/dvd collection and it downloads metadata and lists your collection in a nice way and so on.
It's supposed to run on a NAS/Homeserver running Windows 8 and i want to access it via a webinterface.
ASP.NET using Web-Api seems like a good way to go.
However, it would be great to deploy the website as an executable.
For example: A friend want's to use the application too. I give him an installer and afterwards, he just needs to doubleclick the .exe and a webserver (IIS Express?) and the website boot up automatically.
Is this possible? (and if, how?)
Thanks
Well, of course you could write an installer that installs a webserver (like casini) and then install the Website to this Server and all is installed locally but I don't recommend that. That installer Need more work then the Website.
You are better of with Hosting you Website in a public place like Windows azure and implement your Website in a way that a user can logon and sees it's DVDs. Another users sees other DVDs. Or give him Access to your homeserver with dyndns.
Yes you can add a "Web Setup" project in your asp project to build a msi package and custom what do you want step by step .
This will generate a "installWebSite.msi" file at the end. Just double click it and follow the website installation
You can see a good presentation here ->
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/06/15/tip-trick-creating-packaged-asp-net-setup-programs-with-vs-2005.aspx
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So the current situation is, a client will download an .msi bundle generated from wix, perform the install and enter some specific configuration details afterwards into the application (a windows service/console).
I was looking to streamline this process so all the client has to do is run the installer (no configuration needed), so I was wondering if anyone had any experience with a similar situation.
This is how i image the workflow would run.
User logs into multi-tenant web application => User clicks a download button => Web server collects tenant information => Web server passes configuration into wix (as a build parameter?) => msi is generated with the configuration embeded => User downloads the generated .msi and the world keeps spinning.
Now there are a few things i am unsure of, so here are my questions.
How would you go about running the wix installer from the web application? It's written in C# so would it just launch a cmd window and run msbuild?
If 1. is possible, how would it look/function in Visual Studio. I'm assuming the installer project/installer asset project would both need to be in the build output of the web application, is it possible to copy the raw files into the output? <= is that even a good practice?
It just doesn't seem practical to me, so if anyone has any suggestions on how this can be accomplished, either how I described above or any other methods then I am open to ideas!
Just to clarify, the main goal is to "generate a windows installer at runtime with a tenant configuration embedded"
You can do it from C# for sure. Take a look at the Wix extensions for CakeBuild for example: https://github.com/cake-build/cake/tree/33b83fdbc24a7d3d1bafc4cd7c7df0a204162e3b/src/Cake.Common/Tools/WiX
As to packaging 'content' files up with your web application you can do that too, the wix project files are no different than any other asset as far as the website is concerned.
Also, to run processes from a dot net application there's a bunch of work to do around redirecting and logging the output, you may wish to look into some of the process handling packages on Nuget that can do this for you.
Performance may be an issue for you, plus ways to secure the downloadable MSI in case you only want one user to get it. You may also need to look into code signing if you aren't already. Other than that it should be fairly straightforward.
so my problem Erises as i refuse to advance nor to vs2012/15 nor to mvc 6 i think is the latest and nor using EF... well latest.
as the configuration i am in :
windows 7 .net 4.03... mvc4 iis7
i have a problem adding a new website/application so i could simply publish using built-in arrangement via vs2010... instead..as i did with webforms(my till now approach) copying source to wwwroot by my self.
so the issue is i can not find any article /tutorial to set it correctly as the guidance is to set via web platform referencing this age of versions is via using older Wplatform that has Install Web Deploy - via using option in list "Recommended Server Configuration for Web Hosting Providers" which does not exist in current wplatform...
update i forgot to mention i did not want to set any kind of athuresation till i know what will be the effect and what problems in connectivity to the application it will apply from other hand how easy will it be to hack even via spoofing no sweat
as it seems the problem till now was the access permit to the folder of the project i suggest to not use the vs studio as the folder of the project but to make a copy on a normal directory otherwise u need to set user as the user of iis asp.net iis/nameofpool and give it a read right ...full rights accessing the folder.
I have eCommerce ASP.net Project, This project have 20 important dlls and more java script files when i want to update website for my clients i have to give them dlls and js files and ask them to replace new files with old files and many many troubles.
But I want to create system like web service to update each client automatically like antivirus Update !
Is That even possible !
How about ClickOnce?
It's a microsoft tool that allows you to update the client automatically. When the client opens the application, it asks the server if there are any updates - If there are, it downloads them and updates. If not - nothing special happens and the app just start regulary.
A Web Deploy Package works quite nicely.
Create Package:
right click Publish and choose Web Deploy Package. This creates a .zip deploy package, which you can then easily import into IIS.
Deploy to IIS 7:
right click your site -> Deploy -> Import Application -> Navigate to the .zip deployment package, that's it. Here's a detailed walkthrough
I have to create an exe of an website created in asp.net using visual studio 2010.
I don't known whether exe of web application can be created or not, but I want that my application with database will be able to run on another system where visual studio will or will not be there.And my code should not to be visible to the users using that exe or running that project.
How can I achieve it?!
you can't make a exe for web application but you can do one thing to solve your problem
1)make a window project in this project make a code for run iis and open browser with your web application url and make your window application form hide
2) now make exe of your window application project
You cannot create an executable file in asp.net.
All you can do is create a website using visual studio. once done, publish your website. Deploy it to IIS or host it to a paid web hosting company so you can have your domain. Once done, other users can see your beautiful and elegant website.
You don't create exe of a web application. It is hosted on IIS. So first of all you have to publish your website and then you can host it. For more information you can refer to this one:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/20yh9f1b%28v=vs.100%29.aspx Or google for more articles.
Posting to an old thread, but I came across this situation and found the solution.
Following footsteps of Spring Boot and other containerized solutions, I believe now Microsoft also has added this feature.
My scenario: Created a basic REST based Web application and built it.
This created Debug and Release folder within \bin within the root directory of Web application.
It also creates an exe file.
You just need the necessary runtime dependencies (like .NetCore 3.1 etc in my case) to run this exe.
I copied the entire Web application folder to a Windows Server 2016. There were some issues initially, however later when I added the required dependencies (dotnet folder which was present in my earlier machine), it worked like a charm.
I've built a Winforms Application, and I want to publish it. I'd like to have a link on a website https://sites.google.com/site/satsavvyboardgame/home where I can have the user download the application and have it install on their computer. So far, I haven't found any way to wrap everything up in one package, or successfully publish to the web. What are the specifications for the URL to publish to the web?
Is there any way to package everything into one item (the site won't allow me to upload/download folders), so that the user could download one item, then run that or something in it?
Is there another way to do this that I haven't seen?
I'm using C# Visual Studio 2010 Express, and my application has the code and a couple of XML files that I need to run. All are part of the project, and run fine when I install from a file using the CD publish settings.
I've never published an application before, so any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
You have 2 general options:
use "ClickOnce" which will enable automatic updates each time the user click to install and have several other benefits such as less problems with priviliges.
Use "Windows-Installer", which allows you more control of how to do and what to do during the installtion phase. However, shamefully, Package & Deployment project types do not exist anymore in vs2012. there are several 3rd party packages you can work with to create your setup-project.
The ClickOnce is preferable if what the user download is a just a simple standalone game application for example.. the MSI is for the more "rich" applications that should make extensive usage in the machine registry and etc..
The table in this link will give you the data you need to make a decision:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/142dbbz4(v=vs.80).aspx