"Roger Frost" <fr*****@hotmail.comwrote in message
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"freddy" <fr****@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
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>I would like to uninstall app form both local and remote computers
without
the user knowing what is going on. I have admin right to all the
computers so
this is not a problem. Can this be done?
Thanks
Freddy
Since your subject says "install and uninstall" here's an idea...
This functionality is built into the VS 2008 (perhaps earlier????)
version. Just "Publish" your project and (if you use the correct settings,
they are fairly intuitive) you will have a central location to install
your program from, complete with uninstall capabilities.
As far as actually getting the application on all of the computers in your
company (or whatever), simple scripts should facilitate this, if not your
favorite admin tool.
...if this isn't what you're looking for, a little more information will
be needed....
But I hope it helps,
--
Roger Frost
"Logic Is Syntax Independent"
If you are referring to the ClickOnce capabilities available in the Publish
tab under the project properties, be aware that the user can uninstall, but
you can't really uninstall it from some kind of remote process. The
ClickOnce deployment is stored in an obfuscated folder. You can *guess*
about it, search for it, etc., but you'd really want to be careful you
didn't remove any pieces of any other ClickOnce deployments if you removed
it via scripting. Also, if you just deleted the files, I don't think it will
remove the entry from Programs&Features (or AddRemovePrograms in XP).
He's probably looking for something like what corporations use -- is it
called SMS? -- to push software out to the machines and uninstall it as
well. Even if he created an msi package with Visual Studio, or used
InstallShield, I think both of those provide uninstall methods that can be
called to deinstall the software, and thus could be called remotely.
That's my best guess.
RobinS.
GoldMail, Inc.
