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shiftkey / Shimmer.Samples

A collection of Shimmer samples and demo applications
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Self-updating web application #1

Open shiftkey opened 10 years ago

shiftkey commented 10 years ago

Rather than doing a fresh deployment of an application with a git push, wouldn't it be cool to:

shiftkey commented 10 years ago

Prior art: AutoUpdate

cc @haacked

matteomigliore commented 10 years ago

The project file has two issues:

Here the issue related with Microsoft.Bcl.Build http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2013/08/22/improved-package-restore.aspx.

If is possible, can you update the version of all the packages (Shimmer included) and set the FW 4.5 as target?

[Update1] Appears that the problem with the build is again that the packages path is wrong also in the line EnsureBclBuildImported section of the .csproj file.

shiftkey commented 10 years ago

Which project file is that? I don't know where ConsoleApplication1 is coming from...

matteomigliore commented 10 years ago

The image is from the article, but the problem was only that in your example in the .csproj some paths to the packages folder are without "..\".

Sorry, I don't remember, is there an example of custom UI for the installer using own XAML+ViewModels?

shiftkey commented 10 years ago

The image is from the article, but the problem was only than in your example in the .csproj some paths to the packages folder are without "..\".

I think that's just because it's a simple one-project solution - and the .sln is on the same level as the .csproj file.

Sorry, I don't remember, is there an example of custom UI for the installer using own XAML+ViewModels?

Not yet. I've got a number of other tasks to resolve for the 0.8 release but after that is done and dusted I'll be looking at that here for 0.9: https://github.com/github/Shimmer/milestones/0-9-building-a-custom-installer