We are creating a Windows 10 Universal App in 3 different languages, one of them being minoritary (Basque). During our local testing we could change to any of them, but when installing the app from the Windows Store the Basque resources are not available unless Basque is listed as one of the OS languages.
We've set the NeutralResourcesLanguage attribute to Basque, hoping that the Basque resources would get embedded in the app, so they were always available, but to no avail.
Is there any way to force the download of the Basque resources regardless of Basque being listed as a language at the OS level?
Is there any way to force the download of the Basque resources regardless of Basque being listed as a language at the OS level?
Yes, you can set the Generate app bundle to Never when you package your app.
If the bundle file is generated, then he will cut your application into different parts to optimize the download. For language resource, it will only download the resources file relevant to the language of the device. If you don't have the corresponding Windows-Language-Pack installed, the app will not show the related language for that property which is pointing to the resources file.
For more information, you can refer to Dynamically change the language of a universal app.
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Please guide me, i want to create app with some audio files in assets folder, these files is different for every language, like: 'assets/en/hello.mp3' and 'assets/fr/hello.mp3'.
I want to build my app with 'android app bundle', so that user with specific language can get his/her language assets with smaller build file size.
So how to architect my app with android app bundle?
No build system has native support for this feature yet unfortunately, however bundletool and Play already support it, so if you organize your asset files after the following pattern, it should just work:
assets/<dirname>#lang_en/hello.mp3
assets/<dirname>#lang_fr/hello.mp3
assets/<dirname>/hello.mp3
Where "<dirname>" is any string you want.
The last file in my example would be only delivered to users which have neither French nor English as their language on the device.
Note that when the user changes the language on the device, it will take a few hundreds or milliseconds or seconds to download the right asset, so you'll have to manage this transition on your own (i.e. you can't assume that the asset is already on the device for the new language as it may not have been downloaded yet).
Is there a way to copy only modified files to Service Fabric.
I have a Service Fabric application containing an ASP. Net 5 application as service. Whenever am doing a change to a JavaScript file inside my ASP. Net 5 service, every time I need to copy the entire service fabric application package. Is there a command which allows to copy only the modified file?
The best way to accomplish this is to use diff packaging and app upgrade. See this link for more info: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/service-fabric-application-upgrade-advanced/. Diff packaging allows you to define an application package that only contains the package parts that you wish to upgrade. However, it only applies to a component of an application package, such as a Service or Code package for example. You can't create a diff package at the file level. So if you've only changed a single file in your code package, you must include that file along with every other file that belongs to the code package. You can't just include the single file that changed. But the benefit of diff packaging is that you'd only need to include that single code package. You wouldn't need to provide other Service's code packages, for example, assuming they haven't been changed.
Service Fabric SDK 2.5 brings in a preview feature called "Refresh Application".
Using this feature you can get quicker feedback of your code changes.
To enable that, set the following from project properties
Application Debug mode = Refresh Application.
More details and limitations can be found here:
https://sharepointforum.org/threads/speed-up-service-fabric-development-with-the-new-refresh-application-debug-mode.111162/
In Fabric Explorer you need to find the node where you Web Application is running. I my case that is _Node_0
By SF SDK design, local SF published file is under C:\SfDevCluster\Data_App\ . In my environment, the website file path is C:\SfDevCluster\Data_App_Node_0\Application1Type_App1\Web1Pkg.Code.1.0.0\wwwroot\
So you can also find your HTML, CSS, JS and other static resources under below path: C:\SfDevCluster\Data_App[node_id][application_type_and_instance_name][service_type_and_version]\
You can just modify the files in this folder, then the change will immediately apply to your local test web browser. Please notice if your service is hosted by micro-service running in several nodes, you may need to modify all nodes files because load balancer may access any folder files randomly.
For a project I am currently working on, I need to create a setup application for an existing desktop application. The setup application will be downloaded from a website, and will download required files to the correct locations. When the application is started, it will look for newer versions of these files, download them if any exist, then start the application.
I am using Visual Studio Online with TFVC, linked to Azure. I have a test application set up so that when I trigger a build, Release Management finds the build directory, and moves the files to Azure Blob Storage, but prepends a GUID to the file names being transferred. So what I have in my storage container is:
{Some GUID}/2390/Test.exe
{Some GUID}/2389/Test.exe
{Some GUID}/2387/Test.exe
...
What I want in my container is the latest version of Test.exe, so I can connect to the container, and determine whether I want to download or not.
I have put together a NullSoft installer that checks a website, and downloads files. I have also written a NullSoft "launcher" that will compare local file versions with versions on the website (using a version xml file on the website), and download if newer, then launch the application. What I need to figure out is how to get the newer files to the website after a build, with automation being one of the goals.
I am an intern, and new to deployment in general, and I don't even know if I'm going about this the right way.
Questions:
Does what I am doing make sense for what I am trying to accomplish?
We are trying to emulate ClickOnce functionality, but can't use ClickOnce due to the fact that the application dynamically loads a number of DLLs. Is there a way to configure ClickOnce to include non-referenced DLLs?
Is there a best practice for doing what I'm describing?
I appreciate any advice, links to references, or real-world examples.
You are mentioning ClickOnce, which you investigated but can't use. Have you already tried an alternative: Squirrel? With Squirrel you can specify which files should be part of the installation, allowing you to explicitly specify which files to include even if you load them dynamically.
Link: https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows
Squirrel is a full framework for creating an auto-update application and can work with Azure Blob Storage hosting (and also CDN if you need to scale up)
Let say i have a cross-platform runnable application
This application create then read/write some data and preference in external files
Bundle hierarchy is as follow:
ApplicationFolder/application.jar
ApplicationFolder/database.odb
ApplicationFolder/config.xml
Whether it's on a Mac, Windows or Linux, the application knows that everything is next to her (ie: /database.odb or /config.xml)
Now comes the Self Contained Application feature provided by JavaFx 2
The application is embedded in .exe on Windows, .app on Mac and don't know yet about Linux...
As a Mac user i've tested it on Mac and saw that database.odb and config.xml are now created at the user root path
I thus agree that i should think of a cross-platform mechanism to save/read my application preferences regarding the operating system
But i'm not quite sure of what to do and how to do it (can't find any googling help either..)
On windows, the .exe is installed in a folder, so i guess i can keep the same behavior
On Mac, the .app is a folder and i should keep everything inside (how to get the .app path ?!)
Isn't there a built-in mechanism in Java/JavaFx ?
Thanks a lot for any comment, advice, documentation or else that you could give me
Badisi
There are many ways to do this. I have listed some of them here in no particular order. The recommended approach depends on the type of data being stored.
Java provides a couple of mechanisms (e.g. the properties API and the preferences API) for maintaining application preferences.
If your application is sophisticated enough to benefit from an database, then you might want to use Java EE or Spring, both of which have their own configuration mechanisms.
For read-only configuration, you can bundle the relevant files inside your application jar.
To store customized application configuration files or client application wide databases in relative to the application jar, write the required files at runtime. See How do I get the directory that the currently executing jar file is in?.
For user specific configuration, use System.getProperty("user.home") to retrieve the user's home directory, then create a subdirectory for your preference storage (for example "{$user.dir}/.myapp") with hidden file attributes so that it doesn't show up on a standard file directory list.
If your app relies on internet connectivity, then you can store some of this information server side rather than the client and make use of it from the client using internet protocols. An advantage of this approach is that user configuration and data is automatically ported across client machines.
We have a web application that we need to make easier to deploy for our clients.
The current workflow for a fresh install:
Ensure there is a JRE on machine (32 or 64bit)
Install Tomcat (32 or 64bit)
Create a database in Oracle or SQL Server (we provide SQL scripts for this)
Write some values into our settings table, like hostname. (Can get user to verify these, but dont want user to have to tap them in.
Create a connections properties file (we provide a mini JAR app to help with this) that will sit under Tomcat.
We have two WAR files for our actual web application. These can be split across two machines, but for now, lets assume they both get dumped under Tomcat.
Start Tomcat so that it deploys the WARs
This is a tedious process for our users
I want to encapsulate it into an installer and have been looking at doing this in NSIS which seems to have a large community, but then also stumbled across install4j, which although seems to be lesser known, is more specific to java based applications.
Just wanted to get some feedback from more experiennced users out there on the best choice for platform.
I do not want to get half way in, and then realise I have chosen the wrong installer platform.
Disclaimer: My company develops install4j.
First of all, install4j is a commercial tool, so that's a considerable difference to NSIS. Other major differences are:
install4j is a multi-platform installer builder for Windows, Mac OS X and all POSIX compatible Linux and Unix platforms.
install4j's main focus is for installing Java-based applications, for example it handles the creation of launchers and services and provides several strategies for bundling JREs. Many things that you need for a Java application will work out of the box.
install4j provides its own IDE which focuses on ease of use
Scripting is done in Java. The IDE provides a built-in editor with code-completion and error analysis. Actions, screens and form components have a wide range of "script properties" that allow you to customize the behavior of the installer.
For install4j, I can address your single requirements:
Ensure there is a JRE on machine (32 or 64bit)
In the media wizard, select a JRE bundle. If you select the "dynamic bundle" option, it will only be downloaded if no suitable JRE is found.
Install Tomcat (32 or 64bit)
I would recommend to simply add the root directory of an existing tomcat installation to your distribution tree.
As for the service, you can either use the Tomcat service launcher from the Tomcat distribution or create a service launcher in install4j. In both case you can use the "Install a service" action on order to install the service.
Generated services have the advantage that an update installer knows that they are running and automatically shuts them down before installing any new files.
Create a database in Oracle or SQL Server (we provide SQL scripts for this)
Use the "Run executable or batch file" action in order to run these scripts.
Write some values into our settings table, like hostname. (Can get user to verify these,
but dont want user to have to tap them in.
Any kind of user interaction is done with configurable forms. With a couple of text field form components you can query your settings.
This also works transparently in the console installer and the automatically generated response file will allow you to automate installations in unattended mode based on a single execution of the GUI installer.
Create a connections properties file (we provide a mini JAR app to help with this) that
will sit under Tomcat.
If you already have a JAR file which does that, just add it under Installer->Custom Code & Resources and add a "Run script" action to your installer to use the classes in your JAR file.
Any user input from form components that has been saved to installer variables can be accessed with calls like
context.getVariable("greetingOption")
in the script property of the "Run script" action (or any other script in install4j).
We have two WAR files for our actual web application. These can be split across two
machines, but for now, lets assume they both get dumped under Tomcat.
If you just add the Tomcat directory structure to your distribution tree, you can have these WAR file pre-deployed. Otherwise you can use "Copy file" actions to place the WAR files anywhere.
Start Tomcat so that it deploys the WARs
That's done with the "Start a service" action.