Web Deployment

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Is there a pre-made example of web deployment projects somewhere?

Thanks

Jeff Slarve
www.jssoftware.com
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I'll search help files & Google for you.

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Jeff,

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> Is there a pre-made example of web deployment projects somewhere?
>

A web update demo is available here:

http://www.lindersoft.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9459

Does this help?

Friedrich

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Sweet. Thanks!

Jeff Slarve
www.jssoftware.com
www.twitter.com/jslarve
I'll search help files & Google for you.

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What I'm interested in doing is having my setup.exe download xx number
of components during the setup. Is that something built-in or do I
need to write it?

We lease data to our customers. There are various combinations of this
data that we'd want to give to various customers.

Right now, all of the data for the customer is contained in our
setup.exe. Usually about 500MB setup, which we upload to the website.
Everyone gets their own indivudalized setup. So that's 500MB getting
uploaded for every single customer (and there are quite a few).

I'd like to deploy the data to our web site, then when we create an
individualized setup, we tell our project which stuff to download on
demand.

The thing about checking for updates isn't something we'd need to do.

Jeff Slarve
www.jssoftware.com
www.twitter.com/jslarve
I'll search help files & Google for you.

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Jeff,

> What I'm interested in doing is having my setup.exe download xx number
> of components during the setup. Is that something built-in or do I
> need to write it?

As I understand it, you compile an individualized single-file standalone (no
Internet access required) setup now. If you enable the "Enable Web
Installation" feature then SetupBuilder will generate an individualized Web
setup which can retrieve just the pieces needed for the user's specific
requirements. But this only changes the distribution method, not your
deployment strategy.

What about the following deployment strategy: package the "components" into
ZIP files and upload to your server (500MB). Then develop a simple (and
small) individualized setup.exe that downloads the required components (ZIP
archives) and installs (extracts) from the ZIP archives during the
installation process. Then you only need to distribute the small
individualized setup.exe to your customer(s).

Friedrich

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I'll kick this around. Thanks Friedrich.

Jeff Slarve
www.jssoftware.com
www.twitter.com/jslarve
I'll search help files & Google for you.