[RESOLVED] Remote Execution Deployment

[sagoga69]

Hello!! We are back, and obviously, we are back to ask another question.

We have to develop an ERP with Windows Forms using Visual Basic. The ERP is already developed using ORACLE Forms and ORACLE Reports, and we have to "translate" it to .NET Architecture.

Now, our bigger problem is that, currently, the source code and the executable code is only in one server and all the clients PC have only an ORACLE Framework so they can execute the application without installing anything else. The main advantage is that if a module is updated, they only need to replace the code in the server.

We need to do the same with .NET architecture, so we won't change the current IT Department workflow. Obviously, one solution would be working with Web Forms, but we need to do it with Windows Forms.

Does .Net offer this possibilty? If it doesn't, what options do we have?

We did some research and we found Click Once functionality, but this is only an alternative solution.

Sorry for our english but it's quite difficult for us to explain this kind of issue.

Thanks in advance.

[Hack]

Good to see you both back again.

Basically, your question is how to deploy an application developed in .NET is it not?

(Now, don't both of you answer at once.)

[sagoga69]

Ok!! I'll tell my mate not to answer too

I think that I haven't made myself clear in my last post, because I think (but I'm not sure) that what I'm asking is not a simple deployment, but it's quite particular.

As I said, I'm not sure about what I'm saying, but I don't think that using only the executable code (.exe) stored in the server is the usual way to deploy an application.

I thought that the usual way was to install all the software copies in each client PC and update them whenever is needed using Click Once or... whatever.

So, being mistaken or not, how do we do what we wanna do? Is it as simple as running the executable from the server without doing anything more than installing the .dll's and the framework.

May be, the solution is more simple than I thought and that's why I don't see it. Sorry if it is.

Well, if my mate post here I'll promise you that I'll make him know who I am

[Hack]

Ok!! I'll tell my mate not to answer too

Good. I can only deal with one person at a time.

As I said, I'm not sure about what I'm saying, but I don't think that using only the executable code (.exe) stored in the server is the usual way to deploy an application.

It isn't.

I thought that the usual way was to install all the software copies in each client PC and update them whenever is needed using Click Once or... whatever.

It is.

So, being mistaken or not, how do we do what we wanna do? Is it as simple as running the executable from the server without doing anything more than installing the .dll's and the framework.

As long as each client has all of the dependancy files required to run your app, then I see no reason why you can't run the exe from the server.

[sagoga69]

Thank you very much, I see the white light at the end

And my mate says: "Thank you very much". I think he's starting to see the white light at the end too, but he didn't tell me

[Hack]

And my mate says: "Thank you very much". I think he's starting to see the white light at the end too, but he didn't tell me

You two should talk more often. Communication is a key element to a partnership/friendship.

[sagoga69]

Next month I think I'm going to speak with him again, so, if I can, I'll try to tell him what you have suggested about our communication.












I don't think he's going to listen to me, anyway.