How is it possible to run an assembly from a particular network drive, and directory, not from other places?

Thank you very much,

Alex

Alex

To expand a bit, .NET is designed in to implement much more stringent security environment and ties in to the OS to prevent malicious attacks using security policies.  By default, any network drive is considered a risk and will not execute any .NET assembly.  You can open up your trusts through the .NET 2.0 COnfiguration Manager found in the Control Panel->Administrative tools...however, I recommend against this.  When you have multiple developers accessing the same source files I can guarentee that you will have MAJOR issues and frustrations.  .NET is designed to work best through a source control solution.  At first, coming from VFP, I was not sure that this was a good idea....however, once we started using it it was like tasting candy for the first time   It makes a tremendous difference in cleaning up and creating a standardized, secure, and safe development environment...along with faster access to the source files.

By the way Trent, I've had a slow start with Strataframe (and .NET in general) mostly because of indecision: winforms or webforms, fat client or browser interface?  For the application we are starting a fat client makes sense since a LOT of interactive calculations need to be made and state must be kept or recalculations on every hit would kill responsiveness.  My partner believes it is important to achieve dramatic eye-candy (as well as solid behavior of course) to achieve commercial success.  Also we need to become experts at web apps ASAP, so that is an argument in favor of diving into a browser based app.

Would you comment of the above issues, please?  You will be seeing questions about how to blend Infragistics controls with winforms in Strataframe as well as deploying and updating a winform app via internet as we try to get the best of both worlds.

Thank you.

Alex

Sure.  This is something that we cover it some detail in class (which we should be posting or next training dates this week).  In the past there was a huge pendulum swing in the direction of web applications because it was so difficult to make Win form applications scalable and accessible remotely.  So the web was really the only avenue in which to do this.  The pendulum has been swinging back the other way with the advent of web services.  Developing a web applicaiton generally takes 7 times as long as producing a win forms application...and this is with web experience.  There are more factors to take into account such as browser limitations, post-backs, session states, etc.  So to produce an application of any size requires some serious dedication and time.  I will touch on this again in a minute.

Win forms are a more more solid environment in which to develop.  You have more control over the applicaiton, can develop forms, reports, etc much faster than on web forms.  The issue that people generally have with the win forms when creating distributed applications is determining how they will connect to data.  This is what our Enterprise Server provides.  It provides the benefits of developing in Win forms while giving the scalability of web....this technology is referred to in the industry as Smart-Client which I am sure that you are already familiar with.  Though web forms may be used with the ES as well and is especially beneficial for distributed web servers talking to a single point for data access.

There is a time and place for web applications.  Let me give you an example of how we use the web for our medical application.  Our medical application is written as a WinForms application; however, we are going to provide a web portal that allows patients to request refills for the scripts, schedule an appointment, fill out their patient information from home rather than sitting in the doctors waiting room, and review their lab results online.  This extends the application and uses the same BOs, etc that are used on the win form applications.  But this provides a nice extension to the application rather than trying to run the entire app through the web browser.

Finally, we plan to provide a SAAS model (Software as a service) for our medical software as well which allows the end-user to store their data, etc. on our servers and all they have to do is download a client install.  So they run the WinForms on their side (client-side) while all of the data resides on our servers and they get to the data using our Enterprise Server (which is obviously transparent to them).

Hope this makes sense

Hi Greg.

I had heard very good things about Subversion before and gave it a quick look. Now you mentioned it I will try and play with it more seriously.

Thanks!

I was anxiously waiting for you to say so!

... kidding, I will have a look at the links you provided and probably ask you latter.

Thanks Greg.

It is time.

I have TortoiseSVN installed and everything went really fine during tests. I am also using VisualSVN integrated into Visual Studio. But then I created a Repository on one server and added an application to it, which has lots of files in many folders. Now, if I try to perform a SVN Checkout in another machine, it takes like forever. The same if I use the TortoiseSVN Repo-browser (if you are familiar to it). It takes almost 5 minutes just to list the Repository content.

Have you faced anything like this?

Well, what I have tried looks nice. It shows a red, yellow or green dot besides everything telling you the current state of all files. You can right-click and choose whatever SVN action you would like to take. I hadn't heard of AnhSVN yet, but I would guess they are very similar.

Typically, I'd only checkout a single branch or the trunk, so it would only take a bit over a minute. Doing updates and commits usually takes seconds....about enough time to take a sip of my beverage of choice

Let's put it this way, if I did the same with the speeds I'm getting here, I would have a serious drinking problem by now...

I have installed Apache 2.2 to see if I could get it running with SVN on the server, but haven't been able to make them talk to each other properly up to now. Keep getting 301 errors everytime I try to Repro-browse the repository. One strange thing I have noticed browsing all these open source forums everywhere is that nobody ever gets t a solution post to any problem... or maybe I was just unlucky.

So, I'm still on a local environment, just trying to reach the server as a mapped driver. After what you've said, I'm sure I have done something wrong over here. If I create a new application it works as lightning. But once I try to add my existing app to the repository (and it does it fast), I can't seem to check it out in any other machine with at least a normal speed, and repo-browsing takes ages.

Just to let you know, I am going to try SourceVault as well. This one uses SQLServer as repository and sounds really good. Will let you know of my progress.

Thanks a lot Greg!!!  And how have you been?