Would like to know if it is possible to run a windows application

[Guest]

I would like to know if there is a way to run a windows application on a
client computer without having to run the setup. I was wondering if it
could work to have the application on a file server and run it from the
client computer.

I know that the perfect thing here would be a web application. but the
windows application is already finished.

Thanks fon any suggestions.

 

[Michelle]

Yes, you can store the Executable and any assembies on a File server
(or a directory on a web server) and simply create a shortcut to the
executable on the user's computer.

Take care,
Michelle

 

[Guest]

Eduardo78,

If the application is going to run on the client computer, then the .Net
framework needs to be installed on the client.

Once the framework is on the client, then the application can be pulled from
a file server, etc., but it is still going to execute on the client.

I suppose a product like Citrix or Microsoft Terminal Server would allow the
client to run a Windows application from a server without needing the .Net
framework.

Ofcourse, as you say, the straightforward way to not need any client setup
would be to use a web app.

Kerry Moorman

 

[Phill. W]

I was wondering if it could work to have the application on a
file server and run it from the client computer.

Definitely; Yes.

All the client computers need to have the .Net Framework installed,
but then you can do exactly as you suggest; executable(s) on the
file server, pulled down and run on each client.

HOWEVER ...

The default .Net Framework Security Policy will *not allow* your
program to run. It will "trust" any code [installed] on the local file
system but, by default, will prevent you running [.Net] code from
elsewhere, say, from your file server.
Use the ".Net FrameWork Configuration" utility (in Control Panel)
to allow your code to run or (more easily) use CasPol.exe to do the
same thing from a command prompt, something like (on one line)

caspol.exe
-ag 1.2
-url file://HostName/FileShare/SubDirectories/*
FullTrust
-name "Readible Name"

HTH,
Phill W.