running a .net app from a cd

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Bill C

I have an app I need to write that cannot be installed on
the users machine due to restrictions at the workplace.
can you place all of the .net componentes on a cd rom
along with the program executeable and run it soley from
the CD ROM without installing anything to the machine?
 
Hi,

Generally speaking you can run your program off the CD if the .NET Framework
is already installed on the computer. But I don't think this is your
situation.

Take a look at the Salamander .NET Linker and Mini-Deployment Tool
(http://www.remotesoft.com/linker/), it could be what you are looking for.

Regards,

Gabriele
 
I'm pretty sure that you have to install the .NET framework on the user's
pc.
The app, though, can be run from the CD.
 
Yes. However, .Net framework needs to be installed and the correct version.
If you developed for 1.1 and have 1.1 specific features, then they need 1.1
installed. If you don't have 1.1 specific class calls, then you can build
for both 1.0 and 1.1 - but this will take some testing on both. You also
need to have any/all the dlls your app was built with (i.e. 3rd party
controls, libraries, etc.) on the cd. In general, it is xcopy deployment,
so you can run from floppy, cd, etc. Naturally, if you write anything (log
files, trace out, etc) to the current dir, you would error using a CD.
 
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