Method To Develop And Deploy A Multi-user Desktop Application?
Sep 17, 2009
I have developed an application using vb.net. This application will run on approximately 15 machines at the main office and also roughly 10 machines spread over 3 different locations. I am using SQL Server Express edition in the backend. I deployed the application on the network using caspol but it is extremely slow. The Company Manager's perception is that because a script will invariably have to be deployed on each client machine to configure CASPOL, that the solution is not viable.
What is the best method to develop and deploy a multi-user desktop application?
Question: I created an ASP.NET web application. Now it originally was meant for deployment on a webserver.That is working, so, so far so good.My question now is: Is it possible to deploy it as a desktop-application, too? That is to say the installer installs some kind of server, plus the web application, configures the server to run this application on a localhost URL, and then creates a link in the start menu/desktop, where it opens that url (website, the application) on localhost in a web browser?
I think it should be possible, though the server wouldn't be IIS, because this is a windows component which can't be separately installed. Is there anything like this already out there The nonplusultra would be that it only starts the server when you click on the shortcut.
I am designing a desktop application that will be driven by local data. I am trying to determine the best way to accomplish this. The database would contain about 10-12 tables if I use a database and I would imagine no more than 10000 records in any one table (but honestly 99% of users would not have more than 1000 records). I am thinking about using SQL Server Compact.
Is this a good solution? I can certainly include this in my installation, but I am just wondering if anyone knows of a better solution? If this is the best solution, how would you suggest that I create the tables upon deployment? Should I just run "queries" with create table statements in them from my vb application or include a database file or what?
i developed software use visual basic & microsoft access and run until now.but this software insatalled at many location and distance between location very far. and now, for this solution for every location use local database, then when i need data from other location every location send data to central offfice using email or flashdisk. but this can't get data for real time, because i must wait data for long time.What solution to send data into central office by automatically at every location's data (with internet connection) ?
I am designing a fairly small application to manage a waiting area for a clinical department. There will be a receptionist who books appointments and updates exisiting appointments to say that a patient has "Arrived". In seperate rooms will be nurses who call patients who have "Arrived" and update the appointment as "In Session" and finally as "Discharged". The appointments are viewed in a flexgrid with nurses across the top and time down the left, patient names are displayed at the relevant times and the cells are shaded a colour to represent the current appointment status ("Booked", "Arrived", "In Session" and "Discharged").
I am using SQL Server as the back-end and Visual Basic 6 (I know) as my front-end.I have been told that there will be 2 or 3 nurses plus the receptionist logged in to the system but I would like to cater for growth.My question is what is the best mechanism to use in order to reflect the status change made by one user on the screens of the other users currently logged in?
I have been thinking about using a timer to refresh the data at a set interval but I do not want to keep hitting the server excessively (although what is considered excessive? we would be talking about a call for data every 60 secs per user). Plus the server could be serving data for many other applications so this is another consideration.Alternatively I have been thinking about sending some kind of message via Winsock to the other users notifying them of data changes as they happen. I don't have a lot of experience with this and am concerned about clients not receiving messages and users seeing old data. It also seems strange to me that once the days appointments have been retrieved from the database that "in theory" a client could go the whole day without having to query the database again to pick up changes - kind of scary.Some information on the data:We would probably be looking at around 100 appointments per day We capture patient name, date of birth, date and time of appointment and appointment status.What is the standard approach / best practice for this kind of scenario?
i'm new with visual basic and i need some help to finish this program.This are the instructions and the code that i have is below.You need to develop an application with an accessible user interface for Pizza Station to take pizza orders. The interface should allow the user to enter the following information:
Customer name Size of the pizza Toppings desired
When the user clicks the Order button, a summary of the order and its cost should be displayed in a message box and the controls should be cleared to make the form ready for the next order.
how to make a multi language desktop application in vb.net 2005. only a small desktop application in which i can change language according to countries.
I have finished coding a VB.Net application that has connection to SQL Express 2008 database. My question is, what steps do I have to take to make this a multi user application.
FYI:There are 3 tables in the database of which two tables contain data to be viewed by the user and one table is to insert records by the user. The former two tables will be edited by the administrator only. So there is no issue of concurrency. But the one table that is used to insert records by all users has to be dealt with.
I am new to programming. I know how to create simple windows app using VB and Sql Server/AccessDB. My question is this: Can my windows app be ran on a LAN or do I have to create a special multi-user app for a LAN? If the answer is yes, can someone please guide me on how to create a LAN/Multi-user app.
I want to about a multiuser application that have a server and 2 or 5 client to interect with mssql thorough application. how multiple cleint connect to database in same time.
I have been trying for years making a network app.I need linked to a video or something, mainly on msdn or some microsoft site, because youtube created videos for coding aren't all that helpful as most of the microsoft made videos.
I need not linked to things like multi-user tcp chat application, as i have looked at these, and even found no code solution, but the no code doesn't allow too much customization and hard to deal with data received to make your own commands send and receive and have events for them.
The multi-user tcp chat application, it doesn't explain anything, just gives you the code for you to look at, and well, it's hard to understand.
I WANT TO MAKE THE PROGRAM BEFORE MORE YEARS PASS BY.
i just want some opinnion or suggestions regarding database softwares. we are going to develop a system for 20 or less users, i am planning to use MYSQL community server as our database to lessen the budget for that system, i just want to know if it is ok to use that version.is there a big differece between mysql community server, enterprise server and MS SQL Server in terms of handling data i.e security, speed, etc...
language: VB resource: Visual Studio 2008 Pro(90-day trial) Sql express (the packages when u download the VS 2008)
scenario: i will make database located in a server (LAN) and a multiple client that can access the server database to add,modify,delete records.Im not aware that building a multi-user application database is different from a normal one user application database. T_T.i read some guide and other walkthrough on building a database but it became confusing when it doesnt my requirements. coz when i try to open my database(.mdf) to connect from other client (in another station) it says its currently in use and connot connect to it. err. @_@..
give me some example code to insert rows of datagridview into a sql express database table? Also, how do I manage concurrency as it is a multi user application?
I am developing a VB.Net application. That application might be working on a LAN. MS Access as a backend will be used.
I have developed many single user applications, but don't know of multi user , LAN, manage DB etc. How do I make the program as Multi user on LAN. Data will be accessed at the same time. How to mange such things.
Someone gave me a link to a Multi-User TCP Chat application once, but, there is a flaw in it, where it wont do special characters, such as Alt+1 will become a different character to the server than the one that was sent. Even I tried to see if the output was usable but it sees it as multiple chars, when it is only 1, and I can't find a link between what it sends and what the character is, so I can't just tell it based on whats sent what the char is, because I see no relation, I would have to type it out for each and every special character.
I'm using SQL 2008 Express with a multi user VB.NET Windows application. Do I have to add each user to the SQL user account? Does NT AuthoritySYSTEM work? I do not know how this works. So far I have NT AuthoritySYSTEM in the Security-Logins of the Server. But do I have to add it also in the database? In the databse Security-User, I have the following:
I'm working on a multi user VB.Net windows application with back end as SQL Server 2008 Express. The SQL Server is installed on the intranet network drive. This is the connection string I will be using. Is this correct?
Data Source=.SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=Q:DatabasePrintDB.mdf;Integrate d Security=True;Connect Timeout=30;User Instance=True
Need some help to develop a method/function. No problem if there is no code but I would like to start discussing the best way of doing this even in high level language. First of all would like to provide you with some information. The set that I use here is very small, but the data is on a table in mysql and there will be over a million rows. Its important because if I make a complex loop code, maybe there will be a lot of selects in there.[code]
We have a Windows Forms VB.NET application running on Windows Server 2008. Users access this app using Remote desktop.The app displays information in Excel, but Excel opens on the server.Is there a way for the .NET app to launch Excel on the users local desktop?
I am currently working on a multi branch desktop based project using VB.NET 2008. My Admin want to see the list of currently working branches and not working branches. Additionally they want to know how long a branch is not working.
To display the offline branches I first take a ListBox control named lstListBranch and then upon that control I take another ListBox control named lstListTime to display the offline time.
I want to permanently hide the scrollbar for lstListTime control and want to scroll lstListTime when lstListBranch is scrolled.
I have made a project in vb.net 2008 and used sql server 2008 for database and how to make the setup that need to be deploy on those system which do not have sql server on their system .
I have already wrote my own Registration checking software in VB.NET, however I wanted a Special key that I could use in the Registration, and I want to get this from the user, so when they download my software I will with online feature send them a Serial Number, which they will enter when they install the software, I then want to write it to the Registry using the Setup and Deployment project, so that my application can retrieve it every time it is run to check Registration.
