I looked through the knowledge base and the other forums and it seems installing hotfixes can be problematic for some. In the past I have generally not installed hotfixes but an issue I reported has been fixed and I really need to install the hotfix. Does Infragistics have any sort of step-by-step guide for installing hotfixes? I looked in the help file and didn't see anything (This would be a great addition to the help file). I'm looking for something that addresses updating my development computer, toolbox/applications within VS 2003 - 2008, and perhaps most imporantly how to update things on the server so that I don't screw up an application that may use the same assembly but hasn't yet been updated to the latest hotfixed version. I'm most interested in installing hotfixes for ASP.Net if that matters.
Have any of you guys blogged about this topic yet?
Zack:
I forwarded your post on to our Installer team to see if they have any tips/tricks on this, but as far as I know it should be straight forward. I will post their response when I get it.
Devin
Here is what I got back from the installer team:
Also, regarding deploying to your server:
We have deployment articles in the knowledge base that the customer should already be following. All the customer would need to do is follow those steps again to deploy any updated assemblies, javascript files, etc as needed. Since he’s just concerned about ASP.NET projects, he should just be able to update the web.config file to redirect to the new assemblies. He can have multiple versions of the same assembly in the GAC, so his other ASP.NET apps that don’t need the hotfix can go on unaffected. There are also articles in the knowledge base on how to redirect where to get the javascript files and other ASP.NET files that an application would need, so he could have everything isolated just for the few applications that he knows needs the hotfix and nothing else would get affected. Developer support would be able to provide specific articles that they provide customers already regarding deployment.
There’s a bunch of deployment topics if you search for “deploy” for the Microsoft – ASP.NET platform http://devcenter.infragistics.com/Support/KnowledgeBase.Aspx so the customer can pick the one that suits his version. The redirecting javascript files KB article can be found by searching for “javascript” and you’ll find http://devcenter.infragistics.com/Support/KnowledgeBaseArticle.aspx?ArticleID=6158 which talks about using the web.config file to redirect the location they are found in.
Hope that helps. Let us know if you have any more questions.
I installed the latest hotfix to the latest release yesterday by closing down all apps and then running NetAdvantage_WinForms_20073_CLR20_HotFix_1043.msp, and it broke my application with a message about not being able to find an entry point when my app started up. I fixed this by deleting all my Infragistics References and then adding them back.
Thanks for the great response, Devin. I'll give it a shot and let you know how things go.