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deploying a C#/Visual Studio 2005/Windows XP application onto Windows Vista or Window7
If I have a c# application for windows XP, will it also successfully deploy onto a Windows Vista or 7 platform or must I make some modifications? (non-network application)
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Thanks for the acknowlegement. Hopefully I won't go to the other extreme and bombard you with too much information.
1. My development platform is XP using Visual Studio 2005 C#. Budget concerns prohibit upgrading if at all possible.
2. The application will create the following folders off the Program Files folder:
Program Files\X (not real name)
X contains the program, Desktop Icon, Text files, and possibly a user created text file.
Program Files\X\X1
X1 contains .JPEG and user created .JPEG files
3. If neccessary the program allows for the user to change the screen resolution and restores original setting upon termination. (Anyway to prevent the icons from rearranging?)
4. The software is delivered on a CD.
5. I'm using msi.install. (Only because I seem unable to create a desktop icon with click-once. I'm open to click-once if you know the way to get the desktop icon to appear.)
6. The workings of the registry file are a mystery to me. So whatever is occurring with it is not deliberate manipulation on my part.
Hope this gives you enough info- Kevin
1. My development platform is XP using Visual Studio 2005 C#. Budget concerns prohibit upgrading if at all possible.
2. The application will create the following folders off the Program Files folder:
Program Files\X (not real name)
X contains the program, Desktop Icon, Text files, and possibly a user created text file.
Program Files\X\X1
X1 contains .JPEG and user created .JPEG files
3. If neccessary the program allows for the user to change the screen resolution and restores original setting upon termination. (Anyway to prevent the icons from rearranging?)
4. The software is delivered on a CD.
5. I'm using msi.install. (Only because I seem unable to create a desktop icon with click-once. I'm open to click-once if you know the way to get the desktop icon to appear.)
6. The workings of the registry file are a mystery to me. So whatever is occurring with it is not deliberate manipulation on my part.
Hope this gives you enough info- Kevin
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Thanks ve30fa. It looks like I have some modifying to do so give me some time before I let you know how it went. Also, on the click-once installation not doing a desktop icon, I take it that's just the way it goes and to continue using msi.install? - Kevin
do you write application data to the c:\program files\ area? Do you modify the local machine part of the registry?
Both of these will trigger the UAC.
How are you packaging the software? Click-Once? .msi install?