Hi everyone,
we are deploying a solution on Windows Azure and our soultion references a lot of time (there are 10-15 different webapps, each one with a copy) Telerik.Web.UI.dll.
The problem is that our package has becoming huge (300-400MB) and uploading a new version is getting problematic. One solution we found and achived with other libraries is to create a statup task that downloads the MSI from the Azure Blob Storage and installs everything. The prerequisites for this solution are:
1. must exists a quiet mode install
2. dll must go to GAC (so apps can reference them without having a local copy in bin folder)
I downloaded the MSI file and, using the /? parameter, I found that exists a /quiet parameter that respect prerequisite 1.
After running that I see - running gacutil - that only Telerik.Web.UI.Design is put into the GAC. No way in seeing Telerik.Web.UI.
How can I accomplish this?
Bonus points for who answer to this question too: installation seems to take a lot of time (15-20 mins), it is probably because it installs everything (demo, documentation, vs extensions...). Is it possibile to install just DLLs?
Thanks!
Marco
we are deploying a solution on Windows Azure and our soultion references a lot of time (there are 10-15 different webapps, each one with a copy) Telerik.Web.UI.dll.
The problem is that our package has becoming huge (300-400MB) and uploading a new version is getting problematic. One solution we found and achived with other libraries is to create a statup task that downloads the MSI from the Azure Blob Storage and installs everything. The prerequisites for this solution are:
1. must exists a quiet mode install
2. dll must go to GAC (so apps can reference them without having a local copy in bin folder)
I downloaded the MSI file and, using the /? parameter, I found that exists a /quiet parameter that respect prerequisite 1.
After running that I see - running gacutil - that only Telerik.Web.UI.Design is put into the GAC. No way in seeing Telerik.Web.UI.
How can I accomplish this?
Bonus points for who answer to this question too: installation seems to take a lot of time (15-20 mins), it is probably because it installs everything (demo, documentation, vs extensions...). Is it possibile to install just DLLs?
Thanks!
Marco
1 Answer, 1 is accepted
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Hello Marco,
Teodor
the Telerik team
Regarding the GAC question - as you found, the msi only installs Telerik.Web.UI.Design. To install the other needed assemblies you could create a follow up startup task that calls gacutil /i [RadControls InstallationDirectory]\[PathTo Telerik.Web.UI.dll].
Regarding the second question - You can manipulate the features installed with the command line:
[Download Directory]\Telerik.Web.UI_2012_2_912_Dev.msi /q ADDLOCAL=Assemblies40 INSTALLLOCATION="Install location of your choice"
(Assemblies40 is the RadControls assemblies targeting .NET40)
Don't hesitate to write if you have further questions.
Teodor
the Telerik team
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