Shared files question

[Guest]

Hi
We are porting a vb6 applicaton to .Net 2005. The old vb6 application files
was placed on a network share and the clients only had a shortcut to a exe
file on that share.

The new version that is gonna use both remoting and webservices. Today I
got a question about using file share to distrubute the application because
they don't want to install a lot of stuff on each client.
I know that .Net security will be a problem with starting applications on a
network share, but will the clients still be able to use all functionalites
in Remoting ? Will events still work ? How can I split up an application so
i.e the client only have an exe file and all the referenced files is on a
network share ?
Anybody that have done such a project ?
Why should we not go this way ? Any help / advice would be appriciated.

I would prefer installing everything on each client, but it's not my decision.

Regards
Stein

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Stein,

Your users have first to get the exe over the network to there client
everytime they start the program.
Than they get sophisticated every time over the network information by using
a webservice to access over the server. Your client started computing in
1970 probably and want keep it that way.

They have probably a 100Gb network and are afraid that it will not be used
and somebody sees that 10Mb is even an overkill.

However as you wrote it is not your decission.

It should not be impossible I have readed that you have to give your users
full trust and than do things accoording to this page.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetsec/html/entsecpoladmin.asp

While this is the tool
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...fcodeaccesssecuritypolicyutilitycaspolexe.asp

That is all I know from it.

Did you ask the client 100% extra for this, I assume they have money enough.

Just my thought,

Cor

 

[Guest]

Hi

Thanks for your reply. Been sick so I haven't been able to answer before now.

I haven't talked to the clients about this. It's only internal in our
company so far. My boss asked me to check it out. I am hoping that we go for
a full installation on all machines. I'm afraid that we will loose some of
the cool stuffs in .Net Framework 2.0 by doing this file share thingie

Regards
Stein