Re: How ClickOnce to multiple servers?

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Thanks for the reply Daniel. It's more that we can't trust the connectivity from the client machines back to a server at corporate. Our app runs in (among other places) feed trucks that drive around a feedyard delivering grain to cattle. They're on wireless network to the LAN, but then the LAN that ties that feedyard into the WAN (and thus back to a corporate server) is not reliable. That's why we were thinking we should deploy to a server at each feedyard.

Also, app settings at each yard will be different. How would you deal with that? I think I read that ClickOnce could accept querystring parameters so maybe a feedyard would pass Feedyard=Kuner to the corporate server and ClickOnce would insert the approprate application setting for that install/update. But then there's a chance for someone messing it up too and typing the wrong thing in the URL I suppose.

Do you still strongly disagree with installing to each of 10 servers? Don't forget also about wanting a new change pushed to only one feedyard to make sure works before others get it. Just telling users not to accept optional updates won't cut it either. Some will click it no matter what.

Thanks again,
Ron


"Daniel" <DanielV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:erE9hZqLHHA.1424@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Well when i use click once i publish to a remote server which has high bandwidth and they get the software from there. Then on connecting thats the update location.

An update should always be froma central location, what is better however is to make the update optional when it is in your beta phase and simply tell the others not to install the update. Then after a week or however long of the one that you tried it on working and you are happy, publish it again but this time make the update non optional. So the others will update.

I believe click once can be quite customised but i haven't toyed with that as i haven't needed to yet. Would th eabove not suffice for your deployment needs and be easier to manage rather than trying to make 10 deployment locations? What if you had 100 food yards you couldnt do that method. So i STRONGLY advise the above method or similar.

good luck


"Ronald S. Cook" <rcook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9C9968E2-755A-4CEA-B99D-712D741A7AFB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
We have a VS2005 Team setup and are developing a Windows app (smart client). We are in the cattle feeding business and have 10 distinct feedyards across the U.S. When we wish to deploy an update to our app, we must change an app setting in the project (the IP where the data access layer is) and also the URL in the ClickOnce (to correspond to a server at a particular feedyard). Once we publish, we have to change the app setting and the URL again for the next feedyard. And then do it again and again (for a total of 10 times).

While we've given some thought to a central server for clients to install from and pick up updates, it's not practical for two reasons. One, network connectivity from the feedyards back to our corporate office (in Loveland, Colorado) is not very reliable. Two, we might have a change that we don't all feedyards to immediately pick up. I.e. we may want to publish to one feedyard and make sure it works ok before deploying to the others.

In playing around with MSBuild I found where I can set a PublushUrl setting, but it still puts the files in my local folder. I'm wanting to automate publishing to all feedyards (i.e. 10 separate servers) through some sort of script (i.e. pulling from a list of IP addresses).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Ron




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