Hi all,
I'm relatively new to .Net and especially the Windows side of it (I come
from a web background).
I have recently started dabbling in Windows apps - one thing I would like to
be able to do is install my application across several PC's on a network,
can anyone suggest how this could be achieved?
My application will be using a small xml file as a config file - I was going
to have one of these present for each install of the application - however I
think it might be better if this was in one central location (ie on the
server) so that a) a normal user would be unable to change it, b) when it
needs changing its only changed in one location - not across 30+ client PC's
etc.
Can anyone advise as to whether this is a good approach - or whether having
a config file for each installation would be better - a bonus of this would
be if the server was ever to fail the client apps could still run as they'd
have their own config files etc.
I have used the Install Wizard in Visual Studio once - and it seemed very
straight forward, and put a pretty front end to the install process - I have
no idea however whether this is particularly customisable, ie, what if I
want to still have a file on each install (client) that tells it where to
get the main config file from - this should be perhaps something entered
during the install yet the Wizard did not seem to give any options for
adding extra information(ie, asking questions) during the install process -
other than the location of where the application would be installed.
Any information at all on this subject would be appreciated.
Kind regards
Rob Meade