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Help with Installing an Application - new to ASP.NET
By: rekha singh | 17 Mar 2010 11:51 am
Hello all, I just started learning ASP.NET, having downloaded the Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition and the SQL Server Studio Manager. I have an application that I thought would be easy enough to figure out how to help someone install this on their server. I've installed many php/mysql based apps. However, with this ASP.NET I am being asked to setup the database in a way that is rather peculiar and which I don't follow what exactly one does.I wanted to test this application locally and get feel for how it is installed and then install it on a client's server. I would like so much to figure out how this kind of thing is done. I've never installed a database in this fashion.Ok, the Install instructions say on step 2, Create MS SQL 2005 Database and restore database file (Directory.bak - is what it is called) to your database. Can I do this on my testing server - my home-based business development server? Would Visual Web Developer 2008 EE or SQL Server Studio Mgr help me in doing this? Is it a script that one executes to tell it to restore? I did a search on restore database and found a command that seems to be a sql Query - Restore. There are so many parameters so I'm not sure what to do.Then to install it on the remote production server, how does one do this restore database file? I guess it will be different depending on the
domain control panel used, but what might I be looking for on the server? Do I first upload that Directory.bak file to the server? What kinds of things would you look for in a domain control panel to accomplish thins and what might be involved, if it can be described in a general sense. In my previous experience with php/mysql apps, I'd be looking for a sql file, perhaps and I'd execute it as a query, or run the file or something to that effect from the control panel.thanks in advance for any help in figuring this out for both my local testing server and the remote server where it will be used.
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