Lightswitch Deployment

[GTT]

Hi,

I am having trouble deploying Visual Studio Lightswitch application that is using dotConnect for PostgreSQL. I have successfully deployed it onto my development machine but cannot get it to work on a clean system. As per the documentation I needed to do 2 things for deploying this

1. Add the appropriate .DLL files to the projects bin directory

2. Add the following to Web.Config
system.data>
<DbProviderFactories>
<remove invariant="Devart.Data.PostgreSql" />
<add name="dotConnect for PostgreSQL" invariant="Devart.Data.PostgreSql" description="Devart dotConnect for PostgreSQL" type="Devart.Data.PostgreSql.PgSqlProviderFactory, Devart.Data.PostgreSql, Version=7.3.264.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=09af7300eec23701" />
</DbProviderFactories>
</system.data>

The stack trace from the deployed app is as follows

[Microsoft.LightSwitch.DataService][Application:Error][LightSwitchServiceApplication.datamartData:CreateObjectContext] An exception has occurred: System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Failed to find or load the registered .Net Framework Data Provider.
at System.Data.Common.DbProviderFactories.GetFactory(DataRow providerRow)
at System.Data.Common.DbProviderFactories.GetFactory(String providerInvariantName)
at System.Data.EntityClient.EntityConnection.GetFactory(String providerString)
at System.Data.EntityClient.EntityConnection.ChangeConnectionString(String newConnectionString)
at System.Data.EntityClient.EntityConnection..ctor(String connectionString)
at System.Data.Objects.ObjectContext.CreateEntityConnection(String connectionString)
at LightSwitchApplication.Implementation.datamartDataServiceImplementation.CreateObjectContext()
at Microsoft.LightSwitch.ServerGenerated.Implementation.DataServiceImplementation`1.get_ObjectContext()


So it looks like I am not doing something correct with the factory provider.Any help would be appreciated.

[Shalex]

1. Specify the names and versions (x.x.x.x) of Devart.* assemblies you deployed with your Lightswitch application.

2. There are several versions of Devart.Data.PostgreSql.Entity.dll in the folder of provider installation (by default, %installFolder% is C:\Program Files (x86)\Devart\dotConnect\PostgreSQL\):
%installFolder%\Entity\EF1\Devart.Data.PostgreSql.Entity.dll
%installFolder%\Entity\EF4\Devart.Data.PostgreSql.Entity.dll
%installFolder%\Entity\EF5\Devart.Data.PostgreSql.Entity.dll
%installFolder%\Entity\EF6\Devart.Data.PostgreSql.Entity.dll
Which one did you deploy with your application?

3. Tell us the version and its update (if any) of Visual Studio you are using for creating Lightswitch application.

4. If possible, send us a small test project so that we can reproduce the issue in our environment.

JIC: http://www.devart.com/dotconnect/postgr ... resql.html.

[GTT]

1.
Devart.Data 5.0.1056.0
Devart.Data.PostgreSql 7.3.264.0
Devart.Data.PostgreSql.Entity 7.3.264.0
Devart.Data.PostgreSql.Entity.Migrations 7.3.264.0
Devart.Data.PostgreSql.Entity.Spatials 7.3.264.0

2.
%installFolder%\Entity\EF6\Devart.Data.PostgreSql.Entity.dll

3.
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[Shalex]

1.
...
Devart.Data.PostgreSql.Entity 7.3.264.0
...
2.
%installFolder%\Entity\EF6\Devart.Data.PostgreSql.Entity.dll

The Devart.Data.PostgreSql.Entity.dll assembly from the %installFolder%\Entity\EF6\ folder has the revision number 6 (7.3.264.6).

1. Please send us your Web.config (mark a confidential information with asterisks). A complete small test project will be appreciated.
2. Have you included the "Devart.Data.PostgreSql" DbProviderFactories entry in Web.config of the server part of your Lightswitch application?

[GTT]

Hi, I have managed to get the deployed application working on a clean system by installing the .dll's into the the Global Assemby Cache rather than having them in the /bin directory.


This is what I added to my Web.Config

<system.data>
<DbProviderFactories>
<remove invariant="Devart.Data.PostgreSql" />
<add name="dotConnect for PostgreSQL" invariant="Devart.Data.PostgreSql" description="Devart dotConnect for PostgreSQL" type="Devart.Data.PostgreSql.PgSqlProviderFactory, Devart.Data.PostgreSql, Version=7.3.264.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=09af7300eec23701" />
</DbProviderFactories>
</system.data>

[Shalex]

Please upload your complete small test project to some file exchange server so that we can download it and reproduce the problem in our environment.