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  • Martin
    #1

    Running app from network drive

    Hi all.

    I think that it is very discussed topic, but I still did not find a
    satisfying answer.

    Is there any way how to run an application from network drive without
    setting permissions for the application manually? The users often do
    not know anything about the .Net security, so they are unable to set
    the permissions. Moreover if I try to run my applications from
    network, they do not throw any exception, no error message appears -
    from user point of view just nothing happens, so they do not have a
    chance to see that there is any problem...

    Is there any way how to enable that permissions programmaticall y?
    Maybe I have to create some kind of installer for the application? Or
    is there a possibility to enable the permissions even without an
    installer?

    Martin

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    • Marc Gravell
      #2
      Re: Running app from network drive

      (note: previous post applies to VS2005 and above)


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        • Marc Gravell
          #3
          Re: Running app from network drive

          If you are using Visual Studio, you can create a ClickOnce deployment,
          which allows you to assign permissions (or "full trust"), and sign the
          app. This can be published to a UNC (or over the web), and then when
          the first user runs it they get a simple, user-oriented "is it OK to
          run this?".

          After this, it works every time, including automatically getting
          updates (if configured appropriately), and (optionally) installing
          into the Start menu.

          Job done...

          Marc


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            • Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)
              #4
              Re: Running app from network drive

              Hi,

              "Martin" <zizka@centrum. czwrote in message
              news:1186736105 .572237.22760@e 9g2000prf.googl egroups.com...
              Hi all.
              >
              I think that it is very discussed topic, but I still did not find a
              satisfying answer.
              >
              Is there any way how to run an application from network drive without
              setting permissions for the application manually? The users often do
              not know anything about the .Net security, so they are unable to set
              the permissions. Moreover if I try to run my applications from
              network, they do not throw any exception, no error message appears -
              from user point of view just nothing happens, so they do not have a
              chance to see that there is any problem...
              >
              Is there any way how to enable that permissions programmaticall y?
              Maybe I have to create some kind of installer for the application? Or
              is there a possibility to enable the permissions even without an
              installer?

              Not that I know of, I have a couple of apps in 1.1 that always ahve this
              problem.

              It was solved in 2.0 with ClickOnce.


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                • Martin
                  #5
                  Re: Running app from network drive

                  On 10 Srp, 11:02, "Marc Gravell" <marc.grav...@g mail.comwrote:
                  (note: previous post applies to VS2005 and above)
                  Well, is there any other way than ClickOnce? I've used it for some
                  time for one my project and I had to stop using it, because it caused
                  more problems than it solved. The project was "alive", so I was
                  creating a new version every day or two and the ClickOnce updater was
                  not working properly. After hours spent with users that were unable to
                  get the new update, others that we unable to run the application etc.
                  I stopped using it, copied only the resulting .exe file to the server
                  and manually added the application to full trust on each computer that
                  was using my application. It was lot of work, but after that
                  everything is working fine... So is there any other way than using
                  ClickOnce?

                  Martin

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