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Provide the capability to deploy a DevExtreme application to a web server from Visual Studio

How to add Web Deploy (Publish) to a DeExtreme project

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David Whatley David Whatley

created 11 years ago (modified 11 years ago)

I created a basic application in DevExtreme. Now I want to be able to publish it to Azure. This is a generic HTML5 app, to be run in a browser. Because it was created with the DevExtreme template, there was no web publish project added, and there seems to be no way to add one since Visual Studio does not think it is a web project (or that is somehow overridden by DevExtreme).

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created 11 years ago (modified 11 years ago)

Hi David,
Please refer to the following KB article to learn how to publish a DevExtreme app on a web server:
KA18631: How to deploy an application to the web server

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Private David Whatley Private David Whatley 11 years ago

That article is not relevant to what I asked (despite the title).

Private DevExpress Support Team Private DevExpress Support Team 11 years ago

Hi David,

DevExtreme project template is not an ordinary web application. It is a custom project template, and it does not support this feature. We decided to research the capability of adding the feature to our project in the context of the Provide the capability to deploy a DevExtreme application to a web server from Visual Studio ticket. I cannot give you any time frames when this feature will be implemented. You will be automatically notified when we have any news.

For now, please deploy your project manually by following recommendations from Marion's answer.

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Private David Whatley Private David Whatley 11 years ago

You have a product that is designed to enable the creation of great HTML5 web sites and then don't support (in fact eliminate) Visual Studio's features around deploying that web site? That makes no sense. Hardly sounds like a "feature" suggestion, more like a critical design flaw that needs to be addressed right away.

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Private David Whatley Private David Whatley 11 years ago

And the article you reference, despite the title, is not about deploying web sites from Visual Studio. The content of the article is about adjusting MIME types to handle the unique .dxview extension. The title of that article is misleading and nothing in there addresses the issue I am raising.

Private DevExpress Support Team Private DevExpress Support Team 11 years ago

David,

I would like to thank you for your feedback. Your opinion is very important for us.

Yes, the project is based on HTML5 and JavaScript and can be deployed to a web server. Initially DevExtreme was mostly intended for developing mobile applications. To be honest, we did not take the capability of deploying it to web servers into account. Moreover, it is easy to accomplish this task manually by following recommendations from the How to deploy an application to the web server article. Now, we are researching the capability of integrating the "Publish Web" wizard into our project in the context of the ticket I mentioned in my previous comment.

For now, if you do not wish deploying applications manually, you can create a new Web Site and copy all contend from your DevExtreme application to your Web Site project. This will allow you to deploy it using the "Publish Web" wizard.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

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Private David Whatley Private David Whatley 11 years ago

Indeed I certainly noticed the mobile app heavy nature of the way things were structured, the documentation and so forth. But you do have a while "DevExreme Web" site that promotes this tool as a tool for building device-independent web sites: http://js.devexpress.com/WebDevelopment
I've done some manual deploys using FTP, so yes I can work around the issue. But it is a far cry from: right-click >> Publish… as one does normally with Visual Studio web projects. So glad to hear you are looking to merge that concept back into your custom project setup. Thank you.
I would, however, like to point out yet again that that article that you all keep referencing "How to deploy an application to the web server" is not what you claim it is. Please read it to see what I am talking about. That article merely discusses how to setup MIME types on an IIS server that one has already found some other way to deploy too. Due to the title, that's what comes up when you search your knowledge base… but please read the article. It is not really about what the title says.

Private DevExpress Support Team Private DevExpress Support Team 11 years ago

David,

I do not understand what the issue is. The article describes how to deploy your DevExtreme application to IIS. It describes that you need to copy the content from a DevExtreme project to an IIS project folder. The deploying process includes copying the content from your project to a project folder on IIS. That's it. Then, it describes how to adjust the deployed project to make it work on IIS. Would you please clarify what additional information you expect to see in this article? Why do you think that the content of the article is not related to its subject?

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Private Jose Javier Columbie Private Jose Javier Columbie 6 years ago

I know this is an old ticket but maybe this helps somebody: https://xafmarin.com/how-to-deploy-a-devextreme-multichannel-application-in-azure/

Created: July 22, 2014 4:33 PM

Modified: May 12, 2019 9:13 PM

Platform: HTML JS

Build: 14.1.5

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