In our company we're very restricted about what can be installed on our C drives so I'm hoping we can avoid putting Class Libraries on the users PCs.

So, I've created a test Class Library on our server and then referenced the library from a test project. This works fine, but I'm wondering if this the best way to do it? Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks

I am not sure what is good and bad about that, but here is another idea.

You should consider web forms so you do not need to install anything on users PC's as long as they have a web browser. Those are later in the book. One reason to use them is to avoid having to install on local PC's. The UI is not as flashy got it is getting closer to windows forms. There are other pros and cons.

Bryan

Thanks Bryan

Web forms will definitely be one for the future, but I think the learning curve is too steep to learn .Net and web forms in the short term, so we'll probably stick with windows forms for now.

I copied the exe onto the server as well as the DLL and was able to run the exe on another PC without installing anything. Is this a way of getting round deployment issues on users C drives?

If it's ok to have the Class Libraries on the server, is there an easy way of pointing the project at the dev version of the class library during development and then automatically using the live version of the class library when the exe goes live? Maybe by having a relative path to the class library rather than having to specify the server/path and dll name?

Yes, you can put everything on a network share. I have not done this type of deployment in production, but it should work in most cases. I think to biggest issue woould be to make sure the users had the correct version of the framework. You could also use click once deployment. See chapter 21 for more info on that.

Bryan

Thanks again Bryan

I thought that if I referenced a class library in location A within the project that the exe would use that as the location when it runs, but it doesn't seem to, it uses the exes path instead (which is incidently good news for me!).

Can you confirm this?

Thanks

PS are you THE Bryan?