Two steps installation

Monday, March 21, 2011 by VSX Team | Comments 3
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1st click, 2nd click and you are ready to go. These are the steps required to install any Telerik product as of the Q1 2011 release. The idea behind this change is to provide better user experience during installation. To achieve this we have minimized the steps that you have to perform when installing any Telerik product while at the same time we have left the same flexibility to customize what is installed.

Let me introduce the new installation workflow:

Step 1

Step1

On the first dialog you can read the license agreement of the product if you click the Read License Agreement button. By continuing to the next step you agree to this license agreement.

Step 2

Step2

On the second dialog you can see what components are selected for installation and what the target installation location is. You can perform custom selection by clicking on the Customize button. If you prefer default installation then you can simply click on the Install button and the installation process will start.

We are really excited about the improved installation experience and hope you like it too. We will be glad to hear about your impression so don’t hesitate to share it with us.

Happy installation,
Petar
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3 Comments

  • Don Kirkham 22 Mar 2011
    Dev Installation has become so easy.  Thank you!



    What is your recommendation on the best way to get the new assemblies on to non-dev (staging, test, production) web servers?  Drop the Telerik.Web.UI.dlls for the different .NET versions into the GAC? Are there issues with that?  Does the registering of the assembly in web.config take care of which version of the dll to use?



    I love using RadControls in my work, but still trying to get my arms around how to easily upgrade previous projects or at least have multipe version ofr RadControls running on different web applications within IIS.

  • BV 22 Mar 2011
    do you have planned to include installer for all your products as devexpress has? for example: if we have a premium licence, it would be great to have possibility to have all products in installer and we choose, which to install, instead of having to download each and install it. That would be 2 clicks per products, 10 or more clicks for everything... or am i missing something?
  • Erjan Gavalji 23 Mar 2011
    Hi guys,

    @Don,
    Thanks!
    The deployment on a live server depends on the permissions you have on the machine as well as the number of applications utilizing the Telerik.Web.UI assembly.
    If you don't have permissions to add the files to the GAC you would end up with BIN deployment.
    If you have full permissions, you could use either approach. The GAC deployment is good in terms of having just a single DLL to update. However, it means updating all the web.config files, which you might find harder than to just upgrade the DLLs in the BINs.

    All in all, it ends up to a personal preference.

    @Bojan,
    You're right about the number of clicks per installer! Thanks again for your useful feedback!

    Well, we're working on changing the concept of our installers, so expect good news on this aspect soon!

    In the meantime, you could check Todd's post on updating all the Telerik installers at once:
    http://www.telerikwatch.com/2010/11/quickly-update-all-telerik-product.html

    Cheers,

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