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Make your ASP.NET Application Install It's Own Database : Peter A Bromberg

Saturday, September 13 2008

Describes a simple and highly customizable method to enable an ASP.NET application to detect if its required database needs to be installed, direct the user to an installation page, and perform the install. I am in the process of developing an ASP.NET app that creates and manages content for web site owners, and it is likely that it will be sold for profit, so I need to make it "idiot proof". One of the things that needs to be done with many ASP.NET - based applications is that when it is first run, it must ask the user some questions and have the app save these entries in its configuration file and then create the database for itself -- as directed by the user. If you want people to like you and buy your product, you cannot assume anything - you have to make it so easy to use and install that you hardly ever get support questions....

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Make your ASP.NET Application Install It's Own Database : Peter A Bromberg
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