How to share and run VB.NET windows form Application Exe Server

[smuhilan]

Hi,

We developed a windows form application using VB.NET 2005. We want to put the application exe in server and share the folder throught LAN so that all user can access the exe.

We installed applicaition setup in all client PCs. and copy the application folder which contains required dlls, and exe into server and share the folder.

While click on EXE at client place, it does not open at all.

How to run the application exe for a shared folder?

We want to run through shared folder to avoid multiple version of exe running and easy to update EXE.


Regards
S. Muhilan

[Deepak Sakpal]

If you want to run the application exe from the Shared folder of Server then why did you installed the application setup at client PCs?

Just install the application at server and then create a shortcut of it on client PC. Also you need to assign privileges to the application through Code Access Security as you are trying to run a network program on local machine.

[techgnome]

and make sure the client PCs all have the correct version of the FrameWork.

-tg

[smuhilan]

If you want to run the application exe from the Shared folder of Server then why did you installed the application setup at client PCs?

Just install the application at server and then create a shortcut of it on client PC. Also you need to assign privileges to the application through Code Access Security as you are trying to run a network program on local machine.

I am not understand. what are you saying?

In a typical Visual Baisc 6 application , we installed application setup on client PC and put exe on server in a shared folder. Thereafter we created shortcut from shared folder of server to client. The exe run on client PC use client PC resources and not server resource.

How can I do the same kind of envirnment in VB.NET 2005?

Regarding assign privileages to the application through Code acces security: From where I need to config this? in Client PC .NET config tool or in server PC .NET config tool?


My VB.NET 2005 application also using Visual basic 6 dll. What about this DLL?

From where I have to register?

Shall Use Click Once Depolyment for my application? I need to create shortcuts in desktop which contains command line arguments also?

Please advise me a best solution.

[techgnome]

If you are installing the app on the client PC, what's the point of running it off the server?


And no, .NET doesn't work quite the same way... because it's going to look for the assemblies in the folder where you ran the app from - on the server, that means it has to constantly shuffle resources back and forth between the server and client... highly inefficient. It works with VB6 because the DLLs were registered on the client system, so it looked there first, and finding the references on the local PC, never went any further.

-tg

[mistyfy]

Hi all,

I also got an application that run on the client side, but when i install my application at client side its take around 20sec to retrieve the data from database! How can i speed up my data retrieve time at client side, as i run at my onw pc, the time for retrieve data only take around 2-3sec to show all the data.

[jmcilhinney]

Hi all,

I also got an application that run on the client side, but when i install my application at client side its take around 20sec to retrieve the data from database! How can i speed up my data retrieve time at client side, as i run at my onw pc, the time for retrieve data only take around 2-3sec to show all the data.

This question has nothing to do with the topic of this thread so it doesn't belong here. You should have started your own thread for this question. I've asked a moderator to do it for you.

As for the question, we'd have to know far more about what the application actually does.

[asm]

I have the same problem... Developed a HR Application in vb.net 2005 using sql server.
But now i want to setup the application on server. and all client pc can access the server and run the application.
but frame work error is given..

On server application is running properly.

Pls guide to how share the application