Hi,
I am developing a VB application, and I am creating an exe. Now, there are 10 other systems that I want, that needs to access the application. Would it be possible for the other 10 systems to access the same application, which is on the server, i.e creating a shortcut of the exe on their system and running it from there. The idea is, if we install the app on all the systems, and if we make a change in the app, we need to send a copy of the exe to all the systems again. Instead if they are running off the server, we change it in the server and it automatically is effected on all the systems. Are there any issues with this?

Hi

I do this too, the only issues being that you still have to initially run an installation of your program on the client pc's to install the vb runtimes and any controls. What i have done here is to create a program which doesn't do anything it just has all of the controls I use in my programs and call it something like "Default Installation", run this on the client pc's. Then create shortcuts for the user to your network programs.

The other issue is when you want to update the program you will need to close any open sessions of that program. What you don't know is what the program is doing at the time, so you may want to build in a shutdown facility into it. What I have is a timer on the form which looks for the existence of a file in a certain location. If it exists then the program terminates and if it is re-started then it just exits.


Steve