Q.  What is the recommended way to deploy ASP.Net applications when using Dundas Chart or Dundas Gauge?

A.  We at Dundas Software have designed our products in a way to minimize the deployment headache our users have to face. The easiest way to deploy an ASP.NET application is to simply copy your full application folder over to the server. So long as our products DLL files reside in the Bin directory, the controls will work. Additionally, our products will work with ASP.NET's XCopy deployment strategy; you do not have to run our installs on your server.

Your application will run and display Charts and Gauges as long as our DLLs are found in your application's Bin folder, and your application's DLL is built referencing our controls.

If you have multiple WebApplications using the Dundas Chart assembly on the same server then you also have an option of adding our controls to the GAC (Global Assembly Cache). This way you will only have a single copy of Dundas Chart or Dundas Gauge DLL on your server, which might be easier to manage and upgrade.

Here is a short check list of things to remember to do when deploying an ASP.NET application which is using Dundas Chart or Dundas Gauge.

• Ensure you created a Virtual Folder for your application on the server.
• If you are not using BinaryStreaming, the ASPNET user must have enough rights to write temporary images on the server's Hard drive.
• All Dundas assemblies must be copied over to the server.
• If using Windows 2003, the IIS_WPG user requires Write and Modify permissions.

Please contact our friendly support staff if you continue to have troubles deploying your application.