Windows Services

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brian

I want my users to be able to click a VB.NET exe on there
desktop and will run an application on our server. Can
this be achieved through a .NET service? Or is there
another way to run an application from a remote location?

Thanks
 
Brian,
Is the application on the server an actual executable and each client gets
their own copy, or is there only one "executable" and it handles requests
from each client?

For the former I would recommend Terminal Server.

For the later you can use either a Windows Service with .NET remoting or a
custom TcpClient. Or you could use ASP.NET coupled with Web Services or .NET
remoting.

Matthew MacDonald's book "Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Programmer's Cookbook"
from MS Press provides a number of samples of the above methods.

Alternatively you could use COM+, however more often COM+ is more pain then
gain.

Hope this helps
Jay
 
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