Re: Friday Rant (today!)

2017-01-18 Thread Greg Keogh
> > >Is it just me or is WIX just just a complete utter PITA? > You are not alone. "PITA" is putting it politely. I gave it a good try about 3 years ago but was disgusted by the lack of clarity, documentation and guidance about how to construct the potentially huge slab of XML. The format of the

Re: Portable Web Server?

2017-01-18 Thread Preet Sangha
Scott, I don't think WF is available on .net Core yet. So in that case I'd recommend IIS Express as your host. All the WF stuff I did was years ago and it was all IIS based. It's grown considerably easier I hear. Preet regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 19 January 2017 at 19:46, Scott Barnes

Re: Friday Rant (today!)

2017-01-18 Thread Preet Sangha
Wallace, I've just been off on a reading spree following your link. One thing that keeps coming up is that MSI offers features galore to aid all parts of the application deployment management process. The list is very very impressive. However the the thing that comes across is "*if written

Portable Web Server?

2017-01-18 Thread Scott Barnes
I have a need to create a local mini web server which sole job is to act as a WCF host for local area network clients to feed off. The web server's main role is to act as a Windows Workflow host that will process inbound data into various whacky workflow(s). The web server is headless in that i

Re: Friday Rant (today!)

2017-01-18 Thread Wallace Turner
>Is it just me or is WIX just just a complete utter PITA? Yes its garbage. Yes this is just my opinion and apologies if you have built the worlds best installer on WIX but for me it is the most un-intiative piece of crap in the world. I have been waiting for someone else to rant so i myself can

Friday Rant (today!)

2017-01-18 Thread Preet Sangha
Is it just me or is WIX just just a complete utter PITA? The documentation is appalling. It's basically incomplete and what's there is spread out all over the web. I know the issue is that the underlying MSI infrstructure is the real problem but I'm just going to rant about WIX. Preet

RE: WebApi all 404

2017-01-18 Thread Ken Schaefer
You can upgrade from 2008 to 2008 R2, but it’s a whole new OS Windows Server 2008 == Windows Vista Windows Server 2008 R2 == Windows 7 Some pretty big differences between the two From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent:

Re: WebApi all 404

2017-01-18 Thread Greg Keogh
> > Did you come across this article? > > https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/kb/2023146 > I think so, or very similar ones. Sadly the role changes didn't work. The Rick Strahl article hints that my older server is running IIS 7.0 whereas all the other ones are 7.5, and he reckons I MUST use

RE: WebApi all 404

2017-01-18 Thread Adrian Halid
In the past I have also had to get MVC working under IIS6. I think I followed this article http://czetsuya-tech.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-to-deploy-mvc3-powered-website-to.html. But for IIS7 I can’t remember what I did. Have a read of this post and all the comments. Seems like a lot of

RE: WebApi all 404

2017-01-18 Thread Adrian Halid
Did you come across this article? https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/kb/2023146 Regards Adrian Halid From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2017 3:19 PM To: ozDotNet