Running a App over a network

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Hey Guys and Girls

In VB6 all you had to do to run a application over a network was to place the exe on one of the drives and then place all required dlls on the PCs that want to run it.

Tried doing the same in VB.net but with no joy. I keep getting weird errors.

Can anybody help?

Thanks in advance
 
What type of errors are you getting?

Does all the PC's that need to run this, have the Framework installed?

PS. I'm glad someone found it easy to work with the 'DLL hell' of vb6 :)
 
Hi Mate

VB6 was far from easy when it came to DLLS :P

The framework is installed but I have created a package to install it localy, basically to place the required Dlls on the users PC.

The error is saying

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Application has generated an exception that could not be handled.

Process id=0xd9 (217), Thred id=0x101 (257)

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When it ran off the network drive. It runs fine locally
 
To give you a suggestion:

Create an install that only installs a stub (small exe) on all your clients. The stub can then dynamicly load the depenancies from the network, using the Reflection namespace (You can look up details on the 'Assembly.LoadFrom' method.)

This way, you only need to update the network dll's if you need to update the client's with new versions.

Currently I use a webservice internally to update our client app's, and let me tell you.... it is much better than creating installs :)

Cheers
 
By default .NET security prevents assemblies from being run from a network share. You can change this via the .NET settings pages in Administrative Options under the Control Panel.
 
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