installing manually to the downloaded assembly cache...

[jaha]

Is there any way to manually install to the downloaded assembly cache?
I'd like to write winform controls that run in IE but it'd be a better
customer experience to use a plugin installer that puts the assemblies
in the downloaded assembly cache rather than having to wait a long
time the first time they load a page. I know it seems the same but it
won't to the end user.

Robert Conde

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Is there any way to manually install to the downloaded assembly cache?
I'd like to write winform controls that run in IE but it'd be a better
customer experience to use a plugin installer that puts the assemblies
in the downloaded assembly cache rather than having to wait a long
time the first time they load a page. I know it seems the same but it
won't to the end user.

What we have done is to write a tiny (28 K) app that gets downloaded first.
This app takes an argument the real app. The small app displays a simple
form with a progress bar, a display for the end user that indeed something
is happening. Then once the main app is downloaded it signals the boot
strap app that it can exit, and the main app form appears.
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[Robert Conde]

Thanks Tom..I considered that solution and it's probably a reasonable
one...though I'm not sure of the details on how those two components
would communicate...have to stew on that one(it's a problem I needed
to solve anyhow).

Another solution I though of, but haven't gotten to work, is to
install the real control in the GAC as a signed assembly(using some
kind of installer) on the client side and then have a small host
control download from the server and reference the main control...but
whenever I add this main control to the host control it refuses to
show in IE - if I delete the control it works immediately. Any ideas?

Thanks in Advance
Robert Conde

Is there any way to manually install to the downloaded assembly cache?
I'd like to write winform controls that run in IE but it'd be a better
customer experience to use a plugin installer that puts the assemblies
in the downloaded assembly cache rather than having to wait a long
time the first time they load a page. I know it seems the same but it
won't to the end user.

What we have done is to write a tiny (28 K) app that gets downloaded first.
This app takes an argument the real app. The small app displays a simple
form with a progress bar, a display for the end user that indeed something
is happening. Then once the main app is downloaded it signals the boot
strap app that it can exit, and the main app form appears.

 

[Robert Conde]

Thanks Tom..I considered that solution and it's probably a reasonable
one...though I'm not sure of the details on how those two components
would communicate...have to stew on that one(it's a problem I needed
to solve anyhow).

Another solution I though of, but haven't gotten to work, is to
install the real control in the GAC as a signed assembly(using some
kind of installer) on the client side and then have a small host
control download from the server and reference the main control...but
whenever I add this main control to the host control it refuses to
show in IE - if I delete the control it works immediately. Any ideas?

Thanks in Advance
Robert Conde

Is there any way to manually install to the downloaded assembly cache?
I'd like to write winform controls that run in IE but it'd be a better
customer experience to use a plugin installer that puts the assemblies
in the downloaded assembly cache rather than having to wait a long
time the first time they load a page. I know it seems the same but it
won't to the end user.

What we have done is to write a tiny (28 K) app that gets downloaded first.
This app takes an argument the real app. The small app displays a simple
form with a progress bar, a display for the end user that indeed something
is happening. Then once the main app is downloaded it signals the boot
strap app that it can exit, and the main app form appears.

 

[Robert Conde]

Thanks Tom..I considered that solution and it's probably a reasonable
one...though I'm not sure of the details on how those two components
would communicate...have to stew on that one(it's a problem I needed
to solve anyhow).

Another solution I though of, but haven't gotten to work, is to
install the real control in the GAC as a signed assembly(using some
kind of installer) on the client side and then have a small host
control download from the server and reference the main control...but
whenever I add this main control to the host control it refuses to
show in IE - if I delete the control it works immediately. Any ideas?

Thanks in Advance
Robert Conde

Is there any way to manually install to the downloaded assembly cache?
I'd like to write winform controls that run in IE but it'd be a better
customer experience to use a plugin installer that puts the assemblies
in the downloaded assembly cache rather than having to wait a long
time the first time they load a page. I know it seems the same but it
won't to the end user.

What we have done is to write a tiny (28 K) app that gets downloaded first.
This app takes an argument the real app. The small app displays a simple
form with a progress bar, a display for the end user that indeed something
is happening. Then once the main app is downloaded it signals the boot
strap app that it can exit, and the main app form appears.