I'm in the process of creating a program that connects to the internet to receive data from a database.

Everytime I come to debug my program my firewall asks me whether I want to allow the program to access the internet.

The problem is that my program doesn't have a name, my firewall just says: " is trying to acess the internet".

Because my program doesn't have a name, I can't configure my firewall to automatically configure access rights for it, so I have to keep manually allowing the connections, and there are about 20 in total. This is rather annoying for me, but for the person I'm writing the program for, it'll be very (in nice terms) annoying.

Does anyone know how I can add a 'name' to my program, so that my (and the clients) firewall can be automatically configured?

Many thanks in advance,

The Badman

"If someone gives you lined paper, write the other way"

I'm thinking of two things...

1. Can you set your firewall via the file name - ie your_program.exe ?

2. I've not done it myself, but if you created an 'installer' for your program (think there's a Wizard for this), it should then get installed and be available under Add/Remove programs, perhaps by having this registry entry it might allow your firewall to be configured?

Just two things off of the top of my head, might not be any use to ya's..




Regards

Rob

Your program should have a name, whatever you called it.. i.e. MyProgram.exe because when you run (Debug or Release), VS creates the EXE and executes it.

The only other way of giving your program a 'name' is to set it's Assembly information in AssemblyInfo.vb from the Solution Explorer.