[wix-users] IIS / SQL Configuration Wizard Frameworks

Christopher Painter chrpai at iswix.com
Mon Nov 21 11:22:37 PST 2016


Thanks.  I think it will.   Today they are very much a database first shop.  I'm going to have to see what would be involved to create a model from their existing schema and then use that to transition them to a code first model with a utility that can do automatic migrations.  I wanted to see if anyone else had a better idea before spending time on that.

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Blair Murri
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What I used most recently were the migration classes created by the EF6 code-first wizards (boils down to calling Up() (or Down()) in the correct order, and IIRC there's a migration class in that library that even does that for me.



Don't know if that helps you, though.



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Sure, the IIS part is pretty easy.  I've managed to get the customer requirements narrow (standardized) enough to just use the IIS Extension.

It's the SQL that's a bear.  I've implemented a stock/override pattern for the connection string so that's handled.  The final piece is database change management.  I really want to keep all of that out of the installer and not an installer concern.  I'm looking for some frameworks they can build a custom application on top of to handle  initial database provisioning, security,  backup scheduling and  schema migrations to.  I'd like to just put a shortcut to this utility on the desktop (like TFS Admin Console)  and keep the installer as simple as possible.

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Phill Hogland
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I use Microsoft.Web.Administration.  I'm not sure if that is what you are looking for.

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I'm working on an installer for an IIS/ASP.NET MSSQL application.  Due to the wide number of ways IIS and the datatier could be configured, I was hoping to keep configuration out of the installer.  I like the way Team Foundation Server did it's post installation configuration wizard.  Does anyone know of any open source frameworks or projects to build upon?



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