Start an Application Remotely

[Rick]

Can anyone tell me the best way,with code examples(VB.NET), how to start a
vb.net application on one server from another server?

In other words:
VB.Application on SERVER A will start up a vb.net .exe on SERVER B.

Thanks in advance!
Rick

 

[Michel Posseth [MCP]]

You mean like remoting ?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/72x4h507(VS.85).aspx


or do you mean how those nasty virusses once worked through RPC on the shell
?

hth

Michel

 

[Rick]

Thanks! I have not done anything with .net Remoting, I'm not seeing any
examples on how to fire up an application on another server. Does it requre
Full trust on every file that would be started? or just the exe?. What we
are trying to do is, we have 10 servers that have processing applications on
them, somewhere around 20 to 40 apps, when code is changed it is a real pain
to log on to every server stop the application push the code and then
restart the application, so we have 1 application that pushes to all the
servers. And trying to figure the best way to stop and start the apps from
one server.

 

[Michel Posseth [MCP]]

The whole concept of remoting is to be able to start assemblies on a remote
machine, however there must be a remoting host installled and running on the
server
usually this is a service but it could just as easy be a desktop application
..

The modern variant of Remoting is called Windows Comunication Foundation

However if i understand you correctly you want to be able to start and stop
a running "normall" application ( this could be easy acomplished if the app
had a WCF aka remoting interface or if the app is a windows service )
However to start / stop a desktop application i have to do some
investigation myself and i simply lack the time at this moment ( have to go
to work it`s 8:20 overe here and yes i am such a person who is doing a
9 to 17:00 code monkey job

hth

Michel