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Monday, June 16, 2014Print Subscribe

Deployment: Prerequisites for Windows Server 2008 R2

Click on the Start button, and type in the word “features”. Click on “Turn Windows features on or off”.

The Server Manager will open. Right-click on Roles in the tree in the left pane, and press “Add Roles”.

The Add Roles Wizard will open. Press Next to continue to the list of roles to add. Check the box next to “Application Server”. Include any required features that may be prompted.

Press Next twice to continue to the Role Services page. Check the box next to “Web Server (IIS) Support”. Confirm to add the required roles.

Keep pressing Next until the Confirmation page appears. Select Install to add the roles to the server. This process may take some time.

Completing Installation of ASP.NET 4.5

Microsoft ASP.NET 4.5 is present on the server if all required Windows Updates have been installed. If you are using a Virtual Machine (VM) of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 from Windows Azure, these updates will already be installed.

Note that ASP.NET 4.5 is based on ASP.NET 4.0 and includes additional software components. The next steps do apply to ASP.NET 4.5 despite the fact that ASP.NET 4.0 folders are being referenced.

Press Start on the taskbar. Type in “cmd”, and click on the first result.

In the prompt, type in the following for a 64-bit system:

%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -i

If you using a 32-bit system, type the following:

%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.21006\aspnet_regiis.exe –i

Press Enter on the keyboard, and wait for the program to finish executing.

This step will configure IIS to reference ASP.NET 4.5 libraries.

Labels: ASP.NET, ASP.NET Code Generator, Deployment, Mobile, Tutorials, Web Application Generator

Monday, June 16, 2014Print Subscribe

Deployment: Copying Application onto Web Server

On your local computer, start Code On Time generator, click on the project name, and select Publish.

In the File Explorer window that will open, select all the files, right-click, and press “Send To | Compressed (zipped) folder”.

Right-click on the newly created zipped folder and press Copy.

If you are deploying the app to the same machine, then open Windows Explorer and navigate to “Computer / Local Disk (C:) / inetpub / wwwroot”. Right-click on the folder and press Paste.

If you are deploying to a different computer, then use Remote Desktop to login to the computer. Paste the zipped folder into the same location.

Right-click on the zipped folder, and press “Extract All…”.

Change the name of the destination folder to match the name of your app, and press Extract to start extraction.

The application files will be located under “C:\inetpub\wwwroot\”.

Labels: ASP.NET, ASP.NET Code Generator, Deployment, Mobile, Tutorials, Web Application Generator

Monday, June 16, 2014Print Subscribe

Deployment: Installing Report Viewer 2012

If you have enabled dynamic and static reports for the app, then the Reports menu option is available in the user interface.

Selecting any report option will cause the app to produce a PDF, TIFF, Excel, or Microsoft Word document with reporting data.

If Report Viewer is not installed on the machine, any attempt to start the application will display the error message below stating that “Could not load file or assembly Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms…”.

If you do not need reporting or have enabled it by mistake, then select your project in the app generator, choose Settings, select Reporting, and uncheck “Enable dynamic and static reports in my application”. Click Finish to regenerate the app. You may also consider refreshing all controllers to remove the reporting actions from the user interface.

If you do need built-in reporting in your app, then you need to install Microsoft Report Viewer on your deployment machine.

You will need the following files. It is advisable to download them on your personal machine and then copy them onto the server over Remote Desktop Connection (RDC).

Connect to your server via RDC. Copy the files into the Downloads folder of the server.

Installing SQL Server SQL Types

If SQL Server is not present on the server, then you will need to install Microsoft SQL Server 2012 CLR Types component.

Execute the Web Platform installer file by double-clicking on the “wpilauncher” file.

When installation is complete, the Web Platform Installer will open. In the search box, type in “CLR” and hit Enter on your keyboard.

Press Add next to the first item in the list, then press Install. Accept the license terms to proceed.

Installing Report Viewer

Switch back to the Downloads folder. Double-click on the “ReportViewer” file.

Press Next, then accept the license to install Report Viewer.

This procedure will need to be done on both your development machine and your server.

Labels: ASP.NET, ASP.NET Code Generator, Deployment, Mobile, Reports, Tutorials, Web Application Generator