New Video: How Do I Deploy a Visual Studio LightSwitch Application?

re: New Video: How Do I Deploy a Visual Studio LightSwitch Application?

Beth Massi — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:56:52 GMT

@Scott -- I wrote up a deployment guide here:

blogs.msdn.com/.../deployment-guide-how-to-configure-a-web-server-to-host-lightswitch-applications.aspx

Do you have a link to your forum thread?

re: New Video: How Do I Deploy a Visual Studio LightSwitch Application?

Scott — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:59:30 GMT

The excerpt below is from your tutorial on LightSwitch Deployment referencing IIS 7,

"you should be able to open a browser to http://localhost and see the IIS 7 logo. If that doesn’t happen something got hosed in your install and you should troubleshoot that in the IIS forums or the LightSwitch forums"

Troubleshooting this issue with the Forums has not resolved the issue that I have, I believe I have performed all of the required steps to make IIS7 to work properly e.g. display Local Host page. A IIS 7 tutorial for LigntSwitch would be nice to have, or if there is a current one, I have not been able to find it on MSDN.

Please advise - thanks.

re: New Video: How Do I Deploy a Visual Studio LightSwitch Application?

Beth Massi — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:13:23 GMT

Hi BOb,

Point taken on the integrated security but in a two-tier situation I'd argure that the business doesn't have an IT department at all. In the case I showed, LightSwitch can set everything up for you.

Yes the wizard can generate change scripts or update the database directly. On the Database configuration page of the publish wizard you indicate whether you want to create a new database or update an existing one.

Cheers,

-Beth

re: New Video: How Do I Deploy a Visual Studio LightSwitch Application?

PIlotBob — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:01:01 GMT

Nice video... well done.

One small comment would be that using Trusted DB connection for two tier isn't harder to maintain. You can grant access to a Windows domain group and have IT manage what users are in that group. This would be more secure than using a shared SQL username/password. I hope the username/password is encrypted on the clients config file?

Question... how do you publish an upgrade or version 2 that has database schema changes? Does the publish wizard use and of DataDudes change management or create change scripts? Can you point me to how this will work?

Thanks,

BOb