C# console app deployment

Question

I have a simple C# console application developed on my local machine using VS2008 Pro. I want to know how to deploy this solution onto a network share folder?

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Answer 1

It would be mostly the same process as the Java program. To deploy, compile the program and copy the exe from the bin folder (along with any dependencies) to the network share.

To run the program users would open the command prompt, navigate to shared folder, and type "programName.exe inputParameter1 inputParameter2"

Answer 2

In the exact same way assuming they have the proper dependencies installed (.net, 3rd party assemblies, etc). copy the bin folder then have them execute the exe file.

Answer 3

Take a look at ClickOnce deployment:

ClickOnce is a Microsoft technology for deploying Windows Forms or Windows Presentation Foundation-based software, also called Smart clients. It is similar to Java Web Start for the Java Platform.

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Answer 4

Right click your project, select publish which will make an executable, you can put that in your shared drive, similarly users can go into the command prompt and run it and give some args.

Answer 5

If your application is really "simple", you should be able to just copy the files to a shared folder and run it from there. However, if your "simple" application tries to do things that are restricted by the permissions you might have to configure them with caspol. Assemblies loaded from a shared drive have much fewer permissions than the ones loaded from a local drive.

Answer 6

You can use Publish feature of VS. Note that you can change settings in the Publish section of the console application project to remove some features that you don't need. For instance the renaming of .dll and .exe files by appending the '.deploy' extension to the name of the files or publishing in a new 'version' folder each time. Go to "Project Properties"->"Publish" and remove "Automatically increment revision" checkbox at "Publish Version", click "Options..." button and clear all checkboxes there too.