Diskpart: Format USB with Command Prompt

Curtesy: http://www.disk-partition.com/diskpart/diskpart-format-usb-4125.html

“Windows was unable to complete the format”

Many users would meet the error: “Windows was unable to complete the format” when they try to format their USB drive to FAT 32 or NTFS in Windows Explorer. But why would this happen?

There are many causes that can lead Windows format USB drive failed such as virus infection, the storage device damage, or there has bad sectors on the USB drive, or the USB drive is write-protected. Well, how can you format USB drive successfully under those circumstances?

Ways to format USB drive successfully

You may have a lot of problem about those questions, and you may take a lot of measures to overcome those bad situations like kill virus, check bad sectors, or release the write protection, and so on. Actually, there are many easier solutions.

Solution 1: Disk Management format USB drive

When you cannot format USB drive in Windows Explorer, or the USB drive not shows in My computer or Windows Explorer, you can go to the Windows Disk Management to format USB drive.

Step1. Open Windows Disk Management by typing “diskmgmt.msc” and pressing Enter in the search box.

Step2. Right-click the USB drive and select Format at the menu.

Step3. Then, select a file system to format USB drive into FAT 32, or NTFS, or others. Click OK to start.

However, if the USB drive is shown as unallocated space in Disk Management, here you need right-click the unallocated space, select “New Simple Volume” to create new partition for the USB drive. After creating partition on the USB drive, you will find that it has been formatted and it can be recognized by Windows Explorer.

Solution2: Diskpart format USB drive

Mostly, when the computer cannot recognize a USB drive, you can try to use Diskpart to format USB drive. Diskpart is a built-in tool that manage your hard drives. You can use it to format disk including internal or external hard drive. Diskpart format USB drive is much more effective than Windows Explorer. Here we’ll take an example of how to format USB drive with Diskpart while it is not shown in Windows Explorer.

1. Open the command prompt by typing “cmd” at the search box, right-click the program and select Run as Administrator.

2. Then,type “diskpart” and press enter to launch the program.

3. Next, type “list disk” to display all disks on your computer.

4. Type “select disk 2” and press Enter. Here disk 2 is the USB drive.

5. Type “clean” and press Enter.

6. Type “create partition primary”, press Enter.

7. Type “format fs=fat32 quick” or “format fs=ntfs quick” and press Enter to format USB drive to FAT 32 or NTFS as you want.

Finally, type “exit” to end up this, and you have already finished the task about Diskpart format USB. Then, you can active the partition and assign drive letter for the USB drive. For all this, Diskpart is dangerous for people who do not familiar with Diskpart cause all the operations cannot be revoked once the progress launched. Thus, if there is one mistake, you may get into a big trouble. Fortunately, there is another easy way to format USB drive that even a noob can do it alone.

Solution3: Format USB drive with AOMEI Partition Assistant

AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard is a remarkable free software that can manage your hard drive in Windows 7/8/10. You can use it to create/resize/delete/format/move/merge partitions in a few simple mouse-clicks in its intuitive interface. Format USB drive could be much simpler than Windows Disk Management or Diskpart format USB.

Step1. Plug in your USB drive to your computer. Download the freeware, install and launch it. All disks on your hard dive will be shown on its concise main interface.

Step2. Right-click your USB drive, select Format Partition at the drop-down menu.

Step3. Here you can select the file system you need, edit the partition label and the cluster size. Here we format USB from FAT 32 to NTFS.

Step4. Finally, click Apply at the toolbar to submit the operations.

Even though, AOMEI Partition Assistant still provides you the way to partition hard drive from command prompt including format USB drive with command prompt. AOMEI Partition Assistant format USB drive is a good alternative to Diskpart format USB drive. Besides, you can use it to do many other things for managing your hard drive better.

How to Use the Diskpart Utility to Assign and Remove Drive Letters

The Disk Management tool in Windows gives you an easy-to-use graphical interface to dealing with partitions and drive letters, but what if you want to just quickly change a drive letter on the command prompt? The diskpart utility makes it easy.

You’ll need to start by opening an administrator mode command prompt — type cmd into the search box, and then right-click and choose Run as administrator, or use the CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER keyboard shortcut.

Once there, run the diskpart command, and then type in the following to list out the volumes on your system.

list volume

You’ll want to note the volume number next to the drive that you want to change the letter of. In our case, that number is 3.

Now we’ll use the select volume command to tell diskpart to make changes to that volume. If your drive number is different, you’ll want to replace the 3 with the number in your configuration.

select volume 3

You should see a message that the volume is now selected.

At this point you can easily assign a new drive letter. Just type in this command, substituting R for the drive letter you’d like to use:

assign letter=R

Make sure to hit enter once you’re done, of course.

Once you’ve made that change, your drive should show up again as a new device, and be available for browsing immediately.

If you want to unassign a drive letter in order to hide the drive, you can also use the remove letter command in the same way. We wouldn’t necessarily advise doing this, of course.

Don’t bother trying to change your C: drive, because that’s not going to work.

 

How to Offline/Online a disk using Diskpart

Introduction:

If your computer has multiple disks, you may want to turn off one or more of your disks.

Requirements:

A computer with multiple disks, access to Windows command line, and Windows operating system.

Procedure:

From the task-bar, open the start menu. Search for cmd. In the command line, enter the command

diskpart

Allow the Diskpart program to run. Enter the command

list disk

Example output:

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 119 GB 0 B

The Status column lists the Online/Offline status. Enter the command:

select disk 1

but replace the ‘1’ with the desired disk number. Enter either the command

offline disk

or

online disk

More Information:

Type:

help

within diskpart for more information.

https://www.qualitestgroup.com/resources/knowledge-center/how-to-guide/offlineonline-disk-using-diskpart/

Running VS Code on Linux

Curtsy/ Original post: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux

Installation

1. Download Visual Studio Code for your distribution, .deb for Debian-based distributions such as Ubuntu or .rpm for Red Hat-based distributions such as Fedora or CentOS. Note that 32-bit binaries are also available on the download page.
2. Install the package through a GUI package manager by double clicking on the package file, or through the command line:

 # For .deb
 sudo dpkg -i <file>.deb
 # install dependencies
 sudo apt-get install -f

 # For .rpm (Fedora 21 and below)
 sudo yum install <file>.rpm

 # For .rpm (Fedora 22 and above)
 sudo dnf install <file>.rpm

3. VS Code should now be available to run through the launcher or the command line by running code.

Tip: Run code . in any folder to start editing files in that folder.

Note:

Visual Studio is tightly integrated with Windows and Developing a .NET application using any language (C# or VB) takes more than just having Wine, and since Wine is not capable enough to provide complete development runtime as .NET in Linux.

If you want to develop software specifically in C#, on Linux, you can use MonoDevelop

Since, you’re asking for Visual Studio 2010 (.NET 4.0), with MonoDevelop, you’ll not be able to develop an app that particularly uses .NET 4, as of now MonoDevelop is in version 3.0.2 (somewhat equivalent to .NET 3.0).

You can still use Windows virtually within Ubuntu, using VirtualBox. And then install Visual Studio there, but still a serious app development is not recommended to be done in Virtualized environment.

Download Visual Studio Code

https://code.visualstudio.com/download

http://www.monodevelop.com/download/

 

Data Storage Schemes in Android-Shared preferences (Setting Font Size)

To Setting Dynamic Fonts Size in Android Activity Use “Shared Preferences”

1. Create a project SharedPreference and add the bellow code

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    >

    <SeekBar
        android:id="@+id/SeekBar01"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/TextView01"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/hello" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/EditText01"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btnSave"
        android:text="Save"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</LinearLayout>

package com.jetbrain.nazim.sharedpreferences;
//[changeable as your project package]

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.SeekBar;
import android.widget.SeekBar.OnSeekBarChangeListener;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class SharedPreferencesActivity extends Activity {

    private SharedPreferences prefs;
    private String prefName = "MyPref";
    private EditText editText;
    private SeekBar seekBar;
    private Button btn;

    private static final String FONT_SIZE_KEY = "fontsize";
    private static final String TEXT_VALUE_KEY = "textvalue";

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_shared_preferences);

        editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.EditText01);
        seekBar = (SeekBar) findViewById(R.id.SeekBar01);
        btn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnSave);

        btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(View v) {

                //---get the SharedPreferences object---
                //prefs = getSharedPreferences(prefName, MODE_PRIVATE);
                prefs = getPreferences(MODE_PRIVATE);

                SharedPreferences.Editor editor = prefs.edit();

                //---save the values in the EditText view to preferences---
                editor.putFloat(FONT_SIZE_KEY, editText.getTextSize());
                editor.putString(TEXT_VALUE_KEY, editText.getText().toString());

                //---saves the values---
                editor.commit();

                //---display file saved message---
                Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(),
                        "Font size saved successfully!"+editText.getTextSize(),
                        Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        });

        //---load the SharedPreferences object---
        //SharedPreferences prefs = getSharedPreferences(prefName, MODE_PRIVATE);
        prefs = getPreferences(MODE_PRIVATE);

        //---set the TextView font size to the previously saved values---
        float fontSize = prefs.getFloat(FONT_SIZE_KEY, 12);

        //---init the SeekBar and EditText---
        seekBar.setProgress((int) fontSize);
        editText.setText(prefs.getString(TEXT_VALUE_KEY, ""));
        editText.setTextSize(seekBar.getProgress());

        seekBar.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(new OnSeekBarChangeListener() {
            @Override
            public void onStopTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {
            }

            @Override
            public void onStartTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {
            }

            @Override
            public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar seekBar, int progress,
                                          boolean fromUser) {
                //---change the font size of the EditText---
                editText.setTextSize(progress);
            }
        });
    }
}

now run your project

Restore SQL Server 2012 backup to a SQL Server 2008 database

You have couple of options :

Option A : Script out database in compatibility mode using Generate script option :

Note : If you script out database with schema and data, depending on your data size, the script will be massive and wont be handled by SSMS, sqlcmd or osql (might be in GB as well).

Option B:

First script out tables first with all Indexes, FK’s, etc and create blank tables in the destination database – option with SCHEMA ONLY (No data).

Use BCP to insert data

1. bcp out the data using below script. set SSMS in Text Mode and copy the output generated by below script in a bat file.

   -- save below output in a bat file by executing below in SSMS in TEXT mode
   
   -- clean up: create a bat file with this command --> del D:\BCP\*.dat 
   
   select '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\bcp.exe" ' /* path to BCP.exe */
       +  QUOTENAME(DB_NAME())+ '.' /* Current Database */
       +  QUOTENAME(SCHEMA_NAME(SCHEMA_ID))+'.'            
       +  QUOTENAME(name)  
       +  ' out D:\BCP\'  /* Path where BCP out files will be stored */
       +  REPLACE(SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id),' ','') + '_' 
       +  REPLACE(name,' ','') 
       + '.dat -T -E -SServerName\Instance -n' /* ServerName, -E will take care of Identity, -n is for Native Format */
   from sys.tables
   where is_ms_shipped = 0 and name <> 'sysdiagrams'                       /* sysdiagrams is classified my MS as UserTable and we dont want it */
   /*and schema_name(schema_id) <> 'unwantedschema'    */                             /* Optional to exclude any schema  */
   order by schema_name(schema_id)

2. Run the bat file that will generate the .dat files in the folder that you have specified.
3. Run below script on the destination server with SSMS in text mode again.

   --- Execute this on the destination server.database from SSMS.
   
   --- Make sure the change the @Destdbname and the bcp out path as per your environment.
   
   declare @Destdbname sysname
   set @Destdbname = 'destinationDB' /* Destination Database Name where you want to Bulk Insert in */
   select 'BULK INSERT ' 
   /*Remember Tables must be present on destination database */ 
   + QUOTENAME(@Destdbname) + '.' 
   + QUOTENAME(SCHEMA_NAME(SCHEMA_ID)) 
   + '.' + QUOTENAME(name) 
   + ' from ''D:\BCP\' /* Change here for bcp out path */ 
   + REPLACE(SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id), ' ', '') + '_' + REPLACE(name, ' ', '') 
   + '.dat'' with ( KEEPIDENTITY, DATAFILETYPE = ''native'', TABLOCK )' 
   + char(10) 
   + 'print ''Bulk insert for ' + REPLACE(SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id), ' ', '') + '_' + REPLACE(name, ' ', '') + ' is done... ''' 
   + char(10) + 'go'
      from sys.tables
      where is_ms_shipped = 0
   and name <> 'sysdiagrams' /* sysdiagrams is classified my MS as UserTable and we dont want it */
   and schema_name(schema_id) <> 'unwantedschema' /* Optional to exclude any schema */
       order by schema_name(schema_id) 

4. Run the output using SSMS to insert data back in the tables.

This is very fast bcp method as it uses Native mode.

How do I generate insert statements/ script (including data) with Sql server 2012

• Right click on your database and select Tasks -> Generate Scripts
• Click Next to move past the intro screen and onto the next page, then select the objects you want to script. Note that you can script all SQL objects here, not just tables. This is because this wizard allows you to script schema and data. Importantly, schema only is the default, which you’ll need to change on the next page. Click Next.
• Now you’ll be presented with a set of options mainly relating to how the script is going to be output, however there is an unassuming button labelled Advanced. Clicking this button will give you a dialog with a list of options. The last option under the General section is “Types of data to script”, which you should change from “Schema only” to “Data only”, or “Schema and data”.
• Finally, decide where you want the script to do and you should be able to generate your INSERT statements.

Curtsy: https://raresql.com/2012/09/30/generating-insert-statements-in-sql-server-2012/

Generating INSERT statements in SQL Server 2012

September 30, 2012 by Muhammad Imran

Recently, I wrote an article on “Generating Insert statements, data & schema using SQL Server Publishing Wizard”. It is a very nice tool to generate insert into statement from table data.

In SQL server 2012, the feature of this tool plus additional features are provided. Lets proceed step by step to generate insert into statement from table data in SQL server 2012.

Step 1 :

In the first step, you need to right click on Databases >> Tasks >> Generate Scripts…

Step 2 :

This is the welcome screen. If you don’t need this screen again and again you can check on “Do not show this page again”.

Step 3 :

In this step, you need to generate the script for one object or all objects available in the database. You can further drill down if you need to generate any table. For example :

Setup 4 :

The next step is to define the script location, clip board or in a new window. In the same step, if you click on Advanced button, it will give you further control on scripting.

This is the advance screen, in this screen you can choose whether you need data, schema or data and schema scripts.’

But if you need only Insert into statement from table data, you must select data only. By default it is schema only.

It also allows you to select the SQL version.

Step 5 :

In this step it will display the summary of your selection. If you need you can go back and change the settings.

Step 6 :

In this step, it will display the result.

How to Install Xcode on Windows 10, 8 or 8.1and 7 for iOS SDK

Original Post/ Curtsy: 

https://www.alltechbuzz.net/install-xcode-on-windows-for-ios-sdk/

 

Developing apps for Linux and Windows on any platform is an easy task while building software for Mac is not so easy compared to other platforms. For building apps on Mac requires a SDK called Xcode. Xcode is an integrated development environment (IDE) that consists of set of software development tools which are designed by Apple specifically for developing software on Mac OS X and iOS. The app development kit, Xcode is not available for any other operating systems except Mac OS X and iOS. There are many reasons and compatibility issues behind this unavailability. If you are quite firm to install Xcode on your Windows PC (7, 8.1 and 10) and check the working process of SDK framework/development kit on Windows OS, then here is a detailed way on how to install Xcode on Windows 7 and 8/8.1 and Windows 10 pC.

Xcode – App Development Kit

Xcode is an application development kit or simply SDK containing set of software development tools designed for Mac OS X. Xcode is an interface builder which can also be considered as a testing application and an asset management toolkit. Here is a method on how to install Xcode on Windows PC (7, 8 or 8.1 and 10) using Oracle VirtualBox. Hence, by installing this Xcode SDK on your Windows OS, you can create and develop basic apps on Windows PC.

Requirements to Install Xcode on Windows 7/8/10 OS

In this article, we are going to explain you in a detailed way on how to install Xcode on Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 and 10. Before initiating the installation process, you need to have the following system requirements:

•  A working Mac OS X virtual machine on VMware or VirtualBox.
• Downloaded Xcode package from Apple site. You need to have Apple ID in order to download Xcode from Apple store.
• Dual Core Intel processor
• Minimum 2GB of RAM (Recommended: 4 GB+)
• Hardware Virtualization

If you are a professional app developer, you have to purchase Apple hardware with OS X and app developer ID. You need to use Xcode on your Apple hardware at the time of testing the app on a real Apple device.  As we are using Virtual Box to install Xcode on Windows, make sure that you have a working Mac OS X virtual machine. If you don’t have a copy of an installed Virtual Box, then you can download it here as it is free and open source.

Download VirtualBox

Steps to Install Xcode on Windows 10, 8/8.1 and 7 PC or Laptop

Follow the below steps so as to install Xcode on Windows 10, 8 or 8.1 and Windows 7 desktop or Laptop for iOS SDK.

Step 1: Initially, download and install VMware or VirtualBox on your Windows computer from the above link.

Step 2: Now, you need to download and install OSX Mavericks ISO as a virtual machine.

Step 3: You have to create the virtual machine on your oracle virtual box. For that, you need to open Virtual Box and click New.

Step 4: Now, you will get a new window asking for the name of the new operating system. Enter Name as OSX, Type of the OS as Mac OS X and also enter the Version as Mac OS X (32 bit). Click Next.

Step 5: You need to select the size of RAM for the virtual machine. The sufficient size of memory for Android to run on your Windows computer requires 1024 MB (1 GB). Select the memory size and then click Next.

Step 6: Now, Select and create the type of virtual hard drive file.

Step 7: Select the type of Hardware file as VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image). It is always recommended to go for VDI in terms of ISO image. Click Next.

Step 8: Select the physical hard drive as Dynamically allocated. Now, you need to allocate the file loaction and size of Android from physical hard drive on your device. Then, Click on Create.

Step 9: Now, you have successfully created virtual machine on your virtual box. You need to mount the iso file which is downloaded before. For that, Go to Settings >> Storage >> Load iso File >> Click Ok >> Start.

Step 10: Later, you just follow the on-screen steps of OSX boot as Wizard and then OSX will be installed in Oracle Virtual.

Step 11: Now, go to safari browser in your Virtualbox and open official Apple App store. Sign in using your Apple ID into the App store. You need to enter the Apple ID and password as shown in the image below:

Step 12: After signing, type xcode in the search box in order to get the complete package. It shows you various related apps. Locate Xcode from different apps and click on Free and Download. Then, click OK to download the kit.

Step 13: After completing the installation process, open it from the applications. Now, you need to provide your root credential in order to get access privilege to install Xcode components and also for modifying your system settings. Enter your name and password and press OK.

Step 14: That’s it,. We have now successfully installed the latest Xcode version on your Windows 10, 8/8.1 and 7 PC using desktop virtualization software VMware workstation.

This way you can install Xcode, app development software on your Windows PC or Laptop. Now, you can create new projects and better apps using this interface. As you are running this software on Windows, the performance and speed of Xcode won’t be extremely high.

However, it can be used for educational purpose, but not for professional app developers. Now it’s time to use Xcode on our PC. So in this way you can easily download and install Xcode on your any windows Personal computer or laptop and you can create better apps as per your need. Hope this tutorial helps you in the best way to install Xcode on Windows 10, 8/8.1 and 7 OS running PC or Laptop.

ASP.NET vNext on OSX and Linux

Original post/curtsy: http://graemechristie.github.io/graemechristie/blog/2014/05/26/asp-dot-net-vnext-on-osx-and-linux/

So what is ASP.NET vNext ?

Microsoft have recently released a preview of the next iteration of their ASP.NET platform. I’m not going to go into the details here, people like Scott Hanselman have already done a fantastic job of that. I will however say that the changes, both technical and cultural, are huge. Two of those changes are particularly relevant to this blog post.

Firstly, ASP.NET vNext is fully open source. People like you and me are able to get in on the ground floor, try out the bits and pieces and even contribute – pretty much from the project’s inception.

Secondly, ASP.NET vNext is cross platform, and embraces non Windows hosts as first class citizens. Microsoft are fully integrating Mono and Linux into their build environment and test matrix, and are actively working with the community to make Mono a top class platform for hosting ASP.NET. That being said, these are early days, and the team is still ironing out issues with the Mono environment.

Getting ASP.NET vNext up and running on OSX and Linux

There are two main steps to getting to the point where we can run ASP.NET vNext applications on our non Windows system.

The first is to install Mono. Normally this would be a no brainer; however as all this stuff is very shiny and new there are fixes and features that are currently only in the bleeding edge source code of Mono and have not been released as a package as yet. In order to get these fixes we are going to need to build mono from the latest source code located in the mono git repository.

The second step is to install the “K Runtime Environment” or KRE. This is the command line environment that will build and run (not that there is really a distinction anymore) projects from their new project.json project files.

Installation of the KRE is handled by the “K Version Manager” (KVM). This is a simple app that can install multiple versions of the KRE side by side, and allow you to easily switch between them.

Building Mono

I don’t want to go into too much detail here. There are plenty of guides around the internet on installing mono from source.

• Install Mono as per the instructions at The Mono Github page.
• You will need an earlier mono release installed in order to build Mono from source (Mono uses Mono to build itself)
• You will need autoconf, libtool and and a few other common dev tools installed on your system.
• On some linux systems you may need to run the following before you run the mozroots command below.

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sudo certmgr -ssl -m https://go.microsoft.com sudo certmgr -ssl -m https://nugetgallery.blob.core.windows.net sudo certmgr -ssl -m https://nuget.org

• If you are on linux, you will need to run mozroots --import --sync after installing mono to avoid certificate/trust issues down the line
• If you are on OSX you will want to edit /private/etc/paths and move the line /usr/local/bin before the line /usr/bin so the system finds the new mono version on the path before the old one.

caveat: This may totally break your system if you have lots of crazy stuff in /usr/local/bin. If your not sure about this, wait for a supported official release of Mono

Once all this is done, run mono --version. You should see that you are running Mono version 3.4.1 or newer.

If you do not, check your $PATH variable and go back over the mono install steps.

Installing KVM and the K Runtime Environment

Installing KVM is super simple. If you like you can go to the Readme for the AspNet Home project and follow the “Getting Started” instructions there, however that involves cloning the Home Repository which is only required for that quick start demo.

KVM can be installed on any Linux or OSX system (that has bash or zsh and curl installed) with a single line.

1	curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aspnet/Home/master/kvminstall.sh | sh && source ~/.kre/kvm/kvm.sh && kvm upgrade

This will:

• download kvm.sh and save it in ~/.kre/kvm/kvm.sh
• add the command to run kvm.sh on every login to bash/zsh.
• kvm.sh will then be run via the source command. This adds the kvm command to the current shell.
• run kvm upgrade. This will download the latest KRE package, extract it to .kre/packages and add the bin folder to your path.

Once this is done, all of the KRE commands will be available from shell prompt. Primarily this will be the k command used to run ASP.NET vNext Projects, and the kpm command used to restore packages.

Additionally the kvm command can be used to install other version of KRE side by side for the user, switch between versions, list the installed versions and set up aliases. See the ASP.NET Home Project Readme for examples of the various kvm commands.

Okay, so I’ve got a Shiny New KRE ….

So let’s point it at something. We could download one of the many samples from the aspnet repository, however just to prove we have everything we need to build and run ASP.NET vNext apps on OSX and Linux, lets create a very basic project from scratch.

• Create a folder called HelloKRuntime somewhere on your system and cd into that folder
• Create a file called project.json and copy the following text into it. This is your ASP.NET vNext project file .. and not an angle bracket to be seen !

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{ "dependencies": { "System.Console": "4.0.0.0" }, "configurations": { "net45": {}, "k10": {} } }

• Create a file called Program.cs and copy the following text into it.

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using System; public class Program { public static void Main() { Console.WriteLine("Hello K Runtime !"); } }

• type kpm restore -s https://www.myget.org/F/aspnetvnext/ The K Package Manager will head off to the nuget repository and fetch System.Console and all its dependencies, based on the entry in your project.json file. Note that there is no need to use Nuget to install this package. The project.json entry is all the info kpm needs to fetch your dependencies.

Note: Because the ASP.NET vNext project is currently using their own nuget feed, we need to supply the nuget source on the command line. This can be provided in a NuGet.Config file in your Solution folder, and once the vNext is released you shouldn’t need one at all unless you are using your own private nuget feeds.

• Now type k run from the command line. You should see your system burst to life and utter those immortal words

• As an example of how the new Configuration system ties into the environment, try typing export KRE_TRACE=1 and then k run again. You will see the compiler output as well as the “Hello K Runtime” message.

In Summary

Hopefully this post has demonstrated that cross platform ASP.NET vNext functionality is available now. There are still rough edges, but progress is being made daily and first class support for OSX and Linux environments is on the horizon. If you are having issues getting this working, feel free to drop into the aspnetvnext room on Jabbr and someone should be able to help you out.

UPDATE: If you’d like to try something more involved than the trivial console application above, the simple Hello World V Next web example might be a good next step.

The Next Generation of .NET – ASP.NET vNext

Original post/ curtsy: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2014/05/12/the-next-generation-of-net-asp-net-vnext/

Updated (July 2015): See Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 to read about the latest version of the NET Framework.

Today at TechEd North America, we announced the latest set of innovations that are part of the next generation of .NET. The biggest of those is ASP.NET vNext, which is an updated version of ASP.NET that been optimized for cloud Web development. We’ve continued to improve the core .NET technologies that we shared at Build last month, specifically the .NET Native ahead-of-time compiler and the .NET Next Generation JIT (“RyuJIT”). Both have new releases you can try out. We also have a set of smaller announcements to share.

At Build last month, we announced the .NET Foundation. We are currently talking to over 25 community-based .NET projects and organizations about joining the foundation. The interest in the foundation has exceeded our expectations and is off to a great start.

We also announced the .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) at Build. It includes new C# and VB compilers and a preview of new language features being considered for C# 6. The project is open source on codeplex and has accepted its first pull requests from the community.

The final release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 is now available. Update 2 brings dozens of significant new features to Visual Studio developers, including tools for Windows Phone 8.1 and universal Windows apps.

While we’re looking forward, it’s also good to look at one of the current strengths of .NET. There are currently 1.8 billion active installs of .NET. That’s a very large number by any measure and a great base of desktop and server machines on which to run your apps.

TechEd .NET Announcements

Here’s a quick rundown of the .NET announcements that we shared at TechEd.

• .NET vNext
• ASP.NET vNext (MVC, Web API and Web Pages 6; EF 7; SignalR 3)
• .NET Framework 4.5.2
• .NET Native Developer preview 2 – x86 support
• .NET Next Generation JIT CTP 4 – supported on Windows 7
• Better support for Xamarin in .NET PCL NuGet Packages
• ApiPort API Portablity Analyzer
• Client Libraries for Office 365 REST APIs

.NET vNext

TechEd is the first time we’re talking about .NET vNext, as the next major release of the .NET Framework. At Build and TechEd, we’ve shared many of the features and components that you can expect in the next release. You will be able to compile C# 6 and VB with the Roslyn compilers, host ASP.NET vNext apps on the server or cloud, compile your Windows Store apps with the .NET Native ahead of time compiler, and enjoy faster desktop and server apps with the Next Generation JIT.

We’ve optimized .NET for the mobile-first and cloud-first development options that have become more common today. Device and cloud apps come with significant user expectations around performance, and also run in more specialized hardware/virtual environments. For Windows Store apps, we built the .NET native ahead of time compiler. For cloud apps, we’ve developed a cloud optimized mode.

.NET vNext will have a cloud optimized mode that enables you to deploy your apps with a copy of the .NET Framework libraries they need. Since the runtime and framework libraries are deployed on an app-basis, each app can run different versions of .NET vNext side-by-side and upgrade separately, all on the same machine. These libraries have been slimmed down significantly to reduce the footprint of the framework, and will be distributed via NuGet. Also, libraries such as WPF and Windows Forms have been removed from this mode.

We’re developing this with cross-platform in mind, including an active collaboration with Xamarin to ensure that cloud-optimized .NET applications can run on Mac or Linux on top of the Mono runtime. The great productivity of .NET and ASP.NET can be available to teams working in mixed development environments.

ASP.NET vNext

ASP.NET vNext is our big announcement at TechEd. We’ve updated many aspects of ASP.NET to make ASP.NET apps easier to build and perform significantly better. We’ve considered sites and services that get infrequent traffic and those that get bombarded by visitors all day long. We’ve also opened up new scenarios that were just not possible with ASP.NET before.

We’ve designed ASP.NET with a key set of design principles in mind:

• Cloud-ready out of the box
• A single programming model for Web sites and services
• Low-latency developer experience
• Make high-performance and high-productivity APIs and patterns available – enable them both to be used and compose together within a single app
• Fine-grained control available via command-line tools and standard file formats
• Delivered via NuGet
• Release as open source via the .NET Foundation
• Can run on Mono, on Mac and Linux

ASP.NET vNext includes updated versions of MVC, Web API, Web Pages, SignalR and EF. The key improvement with these frameworks is that MVC, Web API and Web Pages have been merged into a single programming model. For example, there’s now unified controller and routing concepts between all three. You can now have a single controller that returns both MVC views and formatted Web API responses, on the same HTTP verb.

ASP.NET vNext apps are cloud ready by design. Services such as session state and caching adjust their behavior depending on whether the app is running in the cloud or in a traditional hosting environment, while providing a consistent API. We use dependency injection behind the scenes to provide your app with the correct implementation for these services. Using this approach, it is really easy to move your app from on-premises to the cloud, since our code changes, not yours.

You will be able to make changes to your web applications and see the results after a browser refresh, with no separate build step needed. This significant productivity enhancement is based on improvements to load times in the underlying CLR, as well as use of the new .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”).

You can see the ASP.NET vNext in action in the images below. The first image shows an ASP.NET vNext Hello World app hosted from the command-line and drive from browser. Any edits in Visual Studio will be compiled and executed when the browser is next refreshed. This app is using .NET vNext cloud optimized mode.

You can also use Visual Studio with a more traditional Visual Studio F5 workflow that automatically starts the webserver and launches the browser. This is the same app as shown in the image above.

In the image below, the app has been re-configured to run on the full .NET vNext framework, instead of the cloud optimized mode. That’s just a setting on the project. The app now has access to all of the APIs in the .NET Framework. The browser refresh feature is available in this configuration, too.

The table below outlines the ASP.NET vNext scenarios we’ve built and where they are available.

ASP.NET vNext Feature	On .NET vNext	On .NET vNext (Cloud Optimized)
Cloud Ready	*	*
Modular Design	*	*
Dependency Injection	*	*
Consistent Tracing / Debugging	*	*
Faster Development (browser refresh)	*	*
Open Source	*	*
Full Side by Side (runtime and framework deployed with application)		*
Faster startup, Lower memory / Higher throughput (best of class)		*
Uses a smaller set of framework libraries		*
Enabled on Mono, on Mac and Linux		*

 

ASP.NET vNext will be open source and will be contributed to the .NET Foundation. This shouldn’t come as a big surprise since the ASP.NET Web stack is already open source. All of ASP.NET vNext will be delivered via NuGet, will be open source and will take contributions. Read ASP.NET vNext: the future of .NET on the Server to learn more.

Our announcement at TechEd is the first stop for .NET vNext and ASP.NET vNext. We’ll share much more in the months to come before we release the final versions. We’re looking forward to shipping pre-release versions in order to get your feedback.

Additional .NET Framework Updates and Improvements

We recently announced the .NET Framework 4.5.2. It including significant improvements in ASP.NET and Windows Forms and other areas of the product. You can start incorporating 4.5.2 features into your apps now.

We released several key improvements to ASP.NET Web Forms. These include support for ASP.NET Identity 2.0, Entity DataSource control for Entity Framework 6 and Roslyn support.

We have also added new features and scenarios to both .NET Native and the Next Generation JIT. .NET Native now support x86, in addition to ARM and x64 apps. The Next Generation JIT now supports Windows 7 and later for x64 apps. Both of these technologies are a critical part of our .NET vNext roadmap. Expect to hear more about both of them in the coming months.

• Get .NET Native Developer Preview 2
• Get Next Generation JIT (“RyuJit”) CTP 4

Targeting Multiple Platforms

We’ve been working for several years to make it easier to write code for multiple platforms, both as apps and libraries. We started by enabling our PCL reference assemblies for Xamarin, who quickly moved forward with that change. More recently, we’ve been working closely with Xamarin to make our .NET NuGet packages work better with Xamarin tools, to make it easier to build .NET apps for iOS and Android. There’s still work to do, but the experience has gotten much better and will continue to improve.

At TechEd, we announced a new portability analysis tool, called ApiPort. It provides you with two main pieces of data: the platforms that you can easily/reasonably target with your code, and the dependencies that are preventing you from targeting additional platforms.

The command line tool generates an Excel report that provides you with two views of its portability analysis. It provides a high-level color-coded view for a given set of platforms. It also provides a very detailed list of all the types and members used within your code, and whether they are supported, per platform. Given that the report is in Excel, it is very easy to filter the list, build pivot tables and do whatever else you want to perform further analysis.

The image below shows a small sample of the high-level portability analysis view. Only one assembly is shown, but there can be multiple. Check out this sample portability analysis to get a first-hand view.

The tool has another function, too. All of the dependency data (not the assemblies) are uploaded to an Azure service that the .NET team maintains. The data that the tool uploads is the list of assemblies and APIs that your code relies on. We do not record where the data came from or by whom. We do not upload any of your actual code or binaries. We want to know which functionality we need to bring to each platform to make it easier to target all platforms.

If you are finding it difficult to target a particular platform, please “vote” for the APIs you want added to a particular platform by running the tool on your app and libraries. It’s really easy to run the tool on a whole directory.

This first release of tool is missing a few features that we are in the process of adding. The Xamarin/Mono platforms are currently missing from the tool. It also doesn’t yet take into consideration NuGet packages that make .NET Framework APIs available on other platforms, counting them as missing APIs.

• Get the ApiPort API portability analyzer

Client Libraries for Microsoft Services

You’ve probably heard that Microsoft is both a “services first” and “devices first” company. At the nexus of those statements are client libraries that make it easy to target Microsoft services from apps. While Client libraries for Microsoft services are not new, we are more recently working to provide support for more platforms. We’ve started with Office 365 services, and intend to add more services over time.

At TechEd, we announced a preview release of a new set of client libraries for Office 365, for .NET and JavaScript. You can read the announcement for the new Office 365 client libraries on the Office Developer Blog. The .NET Client libraries support WPF, Windows Forms, Windows Store, Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android and ASP.NET apps and Portable Class Libraries, and are delivered via NuGet.

• Microsoft Office 365 Mail, Calendar and Contacts Library for .NET
• Microsoft Office 365 My Files Library for .NET
• Microsoft Office 365 Users and Groups Library for .NET
• Microsoft Office 365 Authentication Library for .NET (Windows Store, Windows Desktop)
• Microsoft Office 365 Authentication Library for ASP.NET
• Microsoft Office 365 Authentication Library for .NET (Android and iOS)

We have also provided an integrated experience for adding these libraries to your apps within Visual Studio. Services require app registration, permission selection and a platform-specific user authentication experience. You also need to add the right client libraries to your app. The Visual Studio experience takes care of all of that for you, as part of the Connected Services Manager, displayed below.

You can learn how to start using this experience from the Office Developer blog. We are using StackOverflow as the community forum for this project, under the Office365APIs tag. Please tell us what you think about the client libraries and the new Visual Studio integration. Do note that these libraries, and the Office services they are targeting, are in Preview and don’t yet support production apps.

Summary

On the .NET team, we’re excited to be sharing the Next Generation of .NET. As you can see from this post and the one we published at Build, we are lining up a significant set of technologies, features and scenarios that will be part of .NET vNext, our next major release of the .NET Framework. In this post, we focused on ASP.NET vNext, our next generation Web and services platform.

For .NET vNext, we’ve been talking about major features and asking for feedback before we even announced the larger release. We’ve been actively engaging with experts and enthusiasts in our preview and pre-release programs to validate our ideas and product directions. It’s turned out to be a great approach. The feedback has been incredible. Thanks to everyone that has participated in our CTPs, developer previews, pre-releases and any other program we ran to collect feedback. We’ve also received great feedback in blog comments. It’s all been very helpful. Do expect multiple additional preview releases over the coming months, particularly for ASP.NET vNext. It’s going to be a fun time.

You can see how these technology investments come together into a single .NET Framework release, in the following slide that we showed at TechEd. Open Source is also an important part of our plans, as you can see with our ASP.NET vNext contribution plans with the .NET Foundation. The future looks very bright for .NET.

Running ASP.NET vNext on CentOS 7

Original post/ Curtsy: http://trydis.github.io/2015/01/06/running-aspvnext-centos7/

06 Jan 2015For reference, here are the versions I used:

Mono: 3.10.0
KVM: Build 10017
KRE: 1.0.0-beta1
libuv: commit 3fd823ac60b04eb9cc90e9a5832d27e13f417f78

I created a new VM in Azure and used the image provided by OpenLogic. It contains an installation of the Basic Server packages.

Install Mono

Add the Mono Project GPG signing key:

$ sudo rpm --import "http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF"

Install yum utilities:

$ sudo yum install yum-utils

Add the Mono package repository:

$ sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo http://download.mono-project.com/repo/centos/

Install the mono-complete package:

$ sudo yum install mono-complete

Mono on Linux by default doesn’t trust any SSL certificates so you’ll get errors when accessing HTTPS resources. To import Mozilla’s list of trusted certificates and fix those errors, you need to run:

$ mozroots --import --sync

Install KVM

$ curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aspnet/Home/master/kvminstall.sh | sh && source ~/.kre/kvm/kvm.sh

Install the K Runtime Environment (KRE)

$ kvm upgrade

Running the samples

Install Git:

$ sudo yum install git

Clone the Home repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/aspnet/Home.git
$ cd Home/samples

Change directory to the folder of the sample you want to run.

ConsoleApp

Restore packages:

$ kpm restore

Run it:

$ k run
Hello World

That was easy!

HelloMvc

Restore packages:

$ kpm restore

Run it:

$ k kestrel
System.DllNotFoundException: libdl
(Removed big stack trace)

Ouch, so I went hunting for libdl:

$ sudo find / -name libdl*
/usr/lib64/libdl.so.2
/usr/lib64/libdl-2.17.so

Create symbolic link:

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libdl.so.2 /usr/lib64/libdl

Run it again:

$ k kestrel
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
  at Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel.Networking.Libuv.loop_size () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel.Networking.UvLoopHandle.Init (Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel.Networking.Libuv uv) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel.KestrelThread.ThreadStart (System.Object parameter) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

Progress, but now we need to get libuv working.

Install libuv

$ sudo yum install gcc
$ sudo yum install automake
$ sudo yum install libtool
$ git clone https://github.com/libuv/libuv.git
$ cd libuv
$ sh autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make check
$ sudo make install

Run it again:

$ k kestrel
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
  at Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel.Networking.Libuv.loop_size () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel.Networking.UvLoopHandle.Init (Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel.Networking.Libuv uv) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel.KestrelThread.ThreadStart (System.Object parameter) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

I knew it had to be a path issue or something, so I went hunting for libuv:

$ sudo find / -name libuv.so
/home/trydis/libuv/.libs/libuv.so
/usr/local/lib/libuv.so

I then checked the library name Kestrel was looking for on Linux here and based on that i created a symbolic link:

$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libuv.so /usr/lib64/libuv.so.1

Run it again:

$ k kestrel
Started

Navigate to http://your-web-server-address:5004/ and pat yourself on the back!

HelloWeb

Restore packages:

$ kpm restore

Run it:

$ k kestrel
Started

Navigate to http://your-web-server-address:5004/.

 

Mono Project

http://www.mono-project.com/docs/web/aspnet/

ASP.NET

Edit page on GitHub

Mono has an implementation of ASP.NET 2.0, ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET AJAX.

Quick Resources:

• ASP.NET FAQ for common questions on ASP.NET.
• Hosting on Apache servers.
• Hosting with FastCGI-based servers.
• Hosting with CGI-based servers.
• Hosting with Nginx.
• Porting ASP.NET applications.

Mono’s ASP.NET implementations supports two kinds of applications:

• Web Forms (Web Applications infrastructure).
• Web Services (the SOAP-based RPC system).

Status and tests for ASP.NET 2.0 are available in our ASPTests page.

Running ASP.NET applications

To run your ASP.NET applications with Mono, you have three classes of options:

• Apache hosting: use mod_mono, a module that allows Apache to serve ASP.NET applications.
• FastCGI hosting: use the FastCGI hosting if you have a web server that supports the FastCGI protocol (for example Nginx) for extending the server. You also may use a web server that only has support for CGI using cgi-fcgi.
• XSP: this is a simple way to get started, a lightweight and simple webserver written in C#.

For deploying applications, we recommend the use of the mod_mono or FastCGI approaches, as that will give you all the configuration options and flexibility that come with using Apache or a FastCGI server.

For quickly getting started, get familiar with Mono and ASP.NET, XSP is the ideal solution. Keep in mind that XSP is a very limited server and is only useful to get acquainted with ASP.NET and Mono, it only support HTTP 1.0 and does not provide much extensibility or configuration.

More advaned users can use the HttpListener and the ASP.NET hosting to create their own hosts for ASP.NET applications.

ASP.NET hosting with Apache

The mod_mono Apache module is used to run ASP.NET applications within the Apache web server.

The mod_mono module runs within an Apache process and passes all the requests to ASP.NET applications to an external Mono process that actually hosts your ASP.NET applications. The external ASP.NET host is called “mod-mono-server” and is part of the XSP module.

To use this, you must download and install the mod_mono and xsp components of Mono. mod_mono contains the actual Apache module, and xsp contains the actual ASP.NET hosting engine, both are available from our download page.

See the mod_mono page for details on installation and configuration.

ASP.NET hosting with Nginx

Nginx is a high-performance HTTP server which support running ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC web applications through FastCGI protocol. See the FastCGI Nginx page for details on installation and configuration.

ASP.NET hosting with XSP

XSP is a standalone web server written in C# that can be used to run your ASP.NET applications with minimal effort. XSP works under both the Mono and Microsoft runtimes. The code is available from our download page (look for XSP web server) or from the git repository (module name: xsp).

The easiest way to start XSP is to run it from within the root directory of your application. It will serve requests on port 8080. Place additional assemblies in the bin directory. Other XSP options can be set on the command line, such as the application directory and the port to listen on.

XSP comes with a set of pages, controls and web services that you can use to test the server and see what ASP.NET looks like.

For example, once you install XSP, you can try some samples like this:

 $ cd /usr/lib/xsp/test
 $ xsp
 Listening on port: 8080
 Listening on address: 0.0.0.0
 Root directory: /home/cvs/mcs/class/corlib/Microsoft.Win32
 Hit Return to stop the server.

You can now browse to http://localhost:8080 and see various sample programs

SSL support in XSP

XSP supports SSL and TLS Client Certificates. For further details about setting it up, see the UsingClientCertificatesWithXSP document.

Configuration

Applications can be configured through the web.config file, the full documentation is available from MSDN, and also a Mono-specific version is available on this site here.

Additionally, you can configure Mono-specific ASP.NET settings (to have applications that behave differently depending on the operating system they are deployed in) using the ASP.NET Settings Mapping engine.

Other extensions

Check out ASP.NET Modules for details on how to support deflate/gzip encodings and authentication.

Debugging

By default xsp and xsp2 run in Release mode, which means that debugging line-number information will not be available in stack traces when errors occur.

To obtain line numbers in stack traces you need to do two things:

1. Enable Debug code generation in your page. 2. Run Mono with the –debug command line option.

You must enable debug code generation in your page using the Debug=”true” in the top of your page, or setting the compilation flag in Web.config (compilation option).

Use the –debug command line option to Mono, this is done by setting the MONO_OPTIONS environment variable, like this:

$ MONO_OPTIONS=--debug xsp2
Listening on port: 8080 (non-secure)
Listening on address: 0.0.0.0
Root directory: /tmp/us
Hit Return to stop the server.

To do the same with the Apache mod_mono module, use the MonoDebug true directive in your apache configuration file.

Supported Versions

Mono supports ASP.NET 2.0, ASP.NET AJAX and a handful of 3.5 controls.

Limitations

Mono’s ASP.NET does not implement the following features:

• Precompiled updatable web sites.
• WebParts APIs.

Work in Progress

git access

Users interested in the latest version of mod_mono and xsp can retrieve these from our public git repository. The module names are mod_mono and xsp respectively. You will also need to check out the mcs module as the System.Web classes are in mcs/class/System.Web.

Designer

There is work in progress on an ASP.NET Designer the designer will eventually be integrated into the MonoDevelop IDE.

ASP.NET Apache setup on CentOS

Original Post/ Curtsy: http://jharitesh.blogspot.com/2012/06/aspnet-apache-setup-on-centos.html

To run ASP.NET application on Apache mod_mono module should be installed and configured on Apache.
All .NET pages are actually processed by mono which runs in background along with Apache. Apache identify .Net request page with help of mod_mono module. I used centOS as OS and performed following steps to run ASP.NET application on Apache.

• Mono installation
• XSP installation
• Apache installation
• mod_mono installation
• Configuration

Mono installation
1. yum install gcc bison pkgconfig glib2-devel gettext make

2. Please check latest mono version on site before installation and edit command with latest version.   wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/mono/mono-2.10.2.tar.bz2

3. tar jxvf mono-2.10.2.tar.bz2

4. cd mono-2.10.2

5. ./configure -prefix=/opt/mono; make; make install

6. echo export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/mono/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH>>~/.bash_profile

7. echo export PATH=/opt/mono/bin:$PATH>>~/.bash_profile

8. source ~/.bash_profile

9. mono -V

to check mono is installed or not

10. cd ..
XSP installation

1. wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/xsp/xsp-2.10.2.tar.bz2 2. tar jxvf xsp-2.10.2.tar.bz2 3. cd xsp-2.10.2 4. ./configure -prefix=/opt/mono; make; make install 5. cd ..

Apache installation

1. yum -y install httpd-devel

mod_mono installation  

1. wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/mod_mono/mod_mono-2.10.tar.bz2 2. tar jxvf mod_mono-2.10.tar.bz2 3.  cd  mod_mono-2.10 4. ./configure –prefix=/opt/mono; make; make install 5. cd ..

 Configuration

1. mono_setup configuration: create mono_setup.conf under directory /etc/httpd/conf.d with below content.

Include /etc/httpd/conf/mod_mono.conf

MonoApplications “/:/var/www/html/”

MonoServerPath “/opt/mono/bin/mod-mono-server2”

 

Options FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride None

AddHandler mono .aspx .ascx .asax .ashx .config .cs .asmx .axd

 

2. Apache configuration: 

1) Open /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and uncomment below line(remove ‘#’).

NameVirtualHost *:80

Extra setting:

I like Ubuntu way to enable disable site so I added this in here too.

2) Add below line

Include /etc/httpd/sites-enabled/

3) Create two directory inside /etc/httpd using below command

mkdir /etc/httpd/sites-enabled
mkdir /etc/httpd/sites-available

4) Type following to create new file a2ensite
    1) cat > a2ensite
2) Type this line
ln -s /etc/httpd/sites-available/$1.conf   /etc/httpd/sites-enabled/$1.conf

3) Press enter to move cursor to a new line and press CTRL+D.
4) Type this  command to make a2ensite executable
chmod   +x   a2ensite
5) Copy into /usr/bin
cp a2ensite /usr/bin

Type following to create new file a2dissite
    1) cat > a2dissite
2) Type this line
rm       -f          /etc/httpd/sites-enabled/$1.conf

3) Press enter to move cursor to a new line and press CTRL+D.
4) Type this  command to make a2ensite executable
chmod   +x   a2dissite
5) Copy into /usr/bin
cp          a2dissite         /usr/bin

3.Config application

Each application will have own separate config in directory  /etc/httpd/sites-available
sample application config file: file path is /etc/httpd/sites-available/name.xyz.com

ServerAdmin xxxx.yyy@name.xyz.com DocumentRoot /var/www/name.xyz.com DirectoryIndex Default.aspx ServerName name.xyz.com ServerPath / MonoAutoApplication disabled MonoApplications “/:/var/www/name.xyz.com” MonoServerPath “/opt/mono/bin/mod-mono-server2” AddHandler mono .aspx .ascx .asax .ashx .config .cs .asmx .axd ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/ name.xyz.com-error_log CustomLog /var/log/httpd/ name.xyz.com-access_log common

In sample config application root directory is var/www/name.xyz.com i.e all application files will be kept in folder name.xyz.com.

4. Deployment 
    1) create directory /var/www/name.xyz.com
2) Copy application folder content into directory /var/www/name.xyz.com
3) Type below command to enable web-application in apache

#a2ensite name.xyz.com

#service apache2 restart
4)  Type below command to disable web-application in apache.
#a2dissite name.xyz.com

#service apache2 restart
Note: file name should be same as what we create in /etc/apache2/sites-available.

5) Other useful commands
To start apache  #service httpd start
To restart apache #service httpd restart
To stop apache #service httpd stop
To check mono is running in background or not  #ps -ef |grep -i “mono”

I also came across few issues during setup and got good solution from other forums. Here are collectively all issues.

1. After deployment & restart of apache when we try to access page ….it is shown as blank page.

Apache error log contains following errors:

[crit] (2)No such file or directory: Failed to create shared memory segment for backend ‘testing’ at ‘/var/run/mod_mono/mod_mono_dashboard_testing_2’.

It is actually thrown because it is failing to create shared memory. Mono run as user apache but only root can write to /var/run. So solution is to create a folder and make apache owner.

2. After solving 1st error when we try to access page from browser it throws error “Service Temporarily Unavailable”. In apache error log below error is shown.

” [error] Failed to connect to mod-mono-server after several attempts to spawn the process.”

solution: This is because of SELinux. By disabling SELinux using following command this issue can be resolved.

# setenforce 0

Script for above two issue is as follows.

dir=”/var/run/mod_mono/” echo “Disable SELinux” setenforce 0 echo -n “SELinux status is ” /usr/sbin/getenforce echo “Stopping Apache” apachectl stop echo “Waiting 5 seconds” sleep 5s shopt -s dotglob if [ -d “$dir” ]; then echo “Removing $dir” rm -rf “$dir”* rmdir “$dir” fi echo “Creating $dir” mkdir “$dir” echo “Changing owernerhip of $dir to Apache” chown apache “$dir” chgrp apache “$dir” chown             -R apache   /opt/mono/ mkdir   -p        ~apache/.mono chown  -R        apache:apache    ~apache/.mono chmod             u+rw    ~apache/.mono echo “Starting Apache” apachectl start echo “Done!”

Above script will run only when system start or reboot.

3. Error message “Make sure that your mod_mono module is loaded after the User/Group directives” is thrown when we start/restart apache. [1]

soln : Put below statement just above “Include conf.d/*.conf” in httpd.conf

User apache
Group apache

and then restart apache httpd service.

4. Error message ” Starting httpd: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using localhost.localdomain for ServerName”

Do following
1) Edit /etc/hosts using your favourite editor The contents should look something like this: # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
2). At the end of the file add: 192.168.20.100 Server1.example.com That’s a [tab] between the IP address and the host name.
3) Save the file
4) Restart the network services to apply your changes service network restart
5) Restart Apache service httpd restart

5. Error message “Auto generated encryption keys not saved: System.Security.SecurityException: No access to the given key”

Reason :ASP.NET is creating auto generated keys for the machine and failing to safe them. The only problem, other that seen that message, is that every time the application is started it will get new keys because they are not being saved.

The directory where this is trying to write is somewhere $SYSCONFDIR/mono/registry (usually /etc/mono/registry). If it allow the user running apache read, write, and execute permissions on that folder, Mono will be able to save the auto generated keys and will reuse them subsequently. Once the keys are written, the apache user will only need read and execute permission.

Solution:
chown             -R apache /opt/mono/
mkdir   -p        ~apache/.mono
chown  -R        apache:apache  ~apache/.mono
chmod             u+rw  ~apache/.mono

The auto-generated keys are now being stored at: “/var/www/.mono/registry/”

Setting up ASP.NET on CentOS 6.x

Original post/ curtsy: https://jefferytay.wordpress.com/2015/08/23/setting-up-asp-net-on-centos-6-x/

With vNext, we are now finally able to run asp.net on Linux!

 

This is done via the MONO framework, which has been around for ages. However as it is with bleeding edge technologies, the setup can be rather cumbersome.

 

Here is the script that you can use to install the latest version of everything and set it up nicely on a minimal setup CentOS box (which is what most servers typically use).

Full source can be found at http://pastebin.com/aTxQne2n

 

##################################################################
# For minimal setup of CentOS 6.5/6.6
##################################################################

##################################################################
# Basic Server essentials
##################################################################
yum -y update
yum -y install yum-utils epel-release
yum clean all && yum makecache
yum -y groupinstall ‘Development tools’

##################################################################
# Install Mono (Latest Version)
##################################################################
yum -y install git autoconf libtool automake build-essential gettext
git clone git://github.com/mono/mono.git
cd mono
./autogen.sh –prefix=/usr/local
make get-monolite-latest
make EXTERNAL_MCS=”${PWD}/mcs/class/lib/monolite/gmcs.exe”
make
make install

##################################################################
# Install LibUV (Latest Version)
##################################################################
yum -y install gcc automake libtool
git clone https://github.com/libuv/libuv.git
cd libuv
sh autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
ldconfig

##################################################################
# Install Node (Latest Version)
##################################################################
yum remove -y nodejs npm
curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup | bash –
yum install -y nodejs

##################################################################
# Install Yeoman and Generator Support (Latest Version)
##################################################################
yum -y install npm

#update npm to latest
npm install -g npm@latest
npm install -g yo

#install Generator support
npm install -g generator-aspnet

##################################################################
# Install DNVM (Latest Version)
##################################################################
yum -y install unzip
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aspnet/Home/dev/dnvminstall.sh | DNX_BRANCH=dev sh
source ~/.dnx/dnvm/dnvm.sh

##################################################################
# Update Mozilla Root Server Certificates
##################################################################
mozroots –import –sync

## for dnu restore to work more reliably, increase concurrent threads
echo -e ‘\r\n## Enable greater Mono concurrency (helps dnu restore)\r\nexport MONO_THREADS_PER_CPU=2000’ >> ~/.bashrc

## dnx needs this to load libuv on CentOS (why not on Ubuntu?)
echo -e ‘\r\n## dnx needs this to load libuv on CentOS (why not on Ubuntu?)\r\nexport LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH’ >> ~/.bashrc

## done – print final instructions
echo -e ‘\r\nDone installing ASP.NET 5 prerequisites and DNVM.\r\nOpen new shell environment\r\nor\r\n$ source .bashrc to keep using this one.\r\n’