This has been discussed before here: Pros and cons of appSettings vs applicationSettings (.NET app.config). As for your questions: The older one is <appSettings>, it was around before 2.0, <applicationSettings> became available in 2.0. Advantage? When I’m editing a value, or adding a value on a server where the best tool is notepad <applicationSettings> is … Read more
Here is a current walkthrough as of April 2014: Install the Web Platform Installer on the server, which is available as a download from Microsoft. http://www.schiffhauer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014-04-01_14-26-18.png Open Web Platform Installer, select “Products” at the top, and search for “Management Service”. Click the “Add” button from the “IIS: Management Service” result , then click “Install”. http://www.schiffhauer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014-04-01_14-34-25.png … Read more
There is a bug in Visual Studio 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022. By default the XML in the solution file looks like this: <Reference Include=”DevExpress.SpellChecker.v11.1.Core, Version=11.1.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b88d1754d700e49a, processorArchitecture=MSIL”> <HintPath>..\References\DevExpress.SpellChecker.v11.1.Core.dll</HintPath> </Reference> Whereas MSBuild is expecting this below, so that the DLL file will be included in the deployment: <Reference Include=”DevExpress.SpellChecker.v11.1.Core, Version=11.1.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b88d1754d700e49a, … Read more
Restart visual studio. I’ve had this one come up on a few occasions after having just successfully deployed a WebApp on a server running IIS 7.5. Obviously since a deployment/publishing was done successfully on the server just before this error came up, there was very little that could have gone wrong on the server setup/configuration … Read more
There is no real need to create a war to run it from Tomcat. You can follow these steps Create a folder in webapps folder e.g. MyApp Put your html and css in that folder and name the html file, which you want to be the starting page for your application, index.html Start tomcat and … Read more