Re: Calling a .Net console app from IBM i

[Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have one windows app I use click once to distribute. It is okay for
internal deployment but you need a real installer package if you are
sending out to customers.

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On Jun 29, 2012 5:02 PM, "Richard Schoen" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Use an installer such as Advanced Installer (which we use) .
>
> http://www.advancedinstaller.com/
>
> Install to a consistent location.
>
> Bigger question would be how are you going to guarantee that your APP ran
> and did its thing ?
>
> Might want to consider letting the iSeries update the SQL database
> directly using some of the FREEWARE products or a commercial product such
> as our RPG2SQL Integrator.
>
> Just sayin :-)
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
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> message: 2
> date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:01:45 -0400
> from: "Bryce Martin" <bmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: [SystemiDotNet] Calling a .Net console app from IBM i
>
> I have a small console application that I wrote to update some info in our
> webstore's sql database from the IBM i system.  The application works
> great, but I want to let one of our 5250 users to run the app via a green
> screen menu.  So I want to use RUNRMTCMD to do that.  The issue is that the
> .Net program was packaged and installed with ClickOnce.
> This is an issue because, besides being new to .Net programming, that
> ClickOnce puts apps in some crazy directory structure, and if you update
> the app, it will change!  So should I redo the package and install using
> Windows Installer?  Or is the ClickOnce thing usable?
>
> Thank You
>
> Bryce Martin
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