I have finished writing an FTP application for my company. I am looking for the best way to deploy the application and provide updates. I have been looking at using ClickOnce deployment provided by Visual Studio. The problem that I am running into is that I don't like the fact that if you use ClickOnce you can not configure it to place an icon on the desktop and it does not create a program folder. I don't want to use MSI packages because it will be too complicated to get to all the needed users. The way I want it to work is that I can deploy the application to a web server and through some programmatic logic, have it check that server periodically for updates. If someone could point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks

I am working on an ftp application that will download files from my companies various servers. Once the file has been downloaded a menu will appear and give users the option to click on a link label and open a specified folder that contains the downloaded file. The problem I am having is finding a way to open a folder in windows explorer. Does anyone know how to do this? I have found some examples that use the "shell" command but i can never get it to work. Thanks

Does anyone know where I can find a (preferably free) telnet component for .NET that will do 5250, wyse 50, and VT320 emulation? It does not have to do all three, but I need to use all three emulations.

I am looking to create a program similar to PcAnywhere so I can connect to various servers. I want to create an interface similar to theirs where it lists the servers that you have configured using a list view control. I want it to list the contents of the folder where I will save the configuration files and display the configuration information in the file for its respective columns.

I am in the process of crating a desktop management software that will incorporate VNC. RDP, and PcAnywhere. From looking at similar software such as PcAnywhere and VNC Scan, I want to be able put all the connection information in a file and save the file to a folder. Once the file is in the folder I want them to be listed using a “list view” function and displayed on the main menu. From their once I click on the file it will open the connection based on the information in the file. I have all the remote protocols working on separate forms and I can list the content of a folder in a list view. The biggest problem I am having is putting the connection information in a file (I.P. Address, Remote Protocol, etc) and calling that file from a list view. http://www.vncscan.com/ http://www.symantec.com/home\_homeoffice/products/features.jsp?pcid=pf&pvid=pca12

I would be more than willing to do that. Can you please send me a link to the article that most closely deals with this. Thanks

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I cant find any sample code for Remote Desktop in Visual Studio 2005. Does anyone have some sample code to connect to a terminal server or know where I can find some? I have played around with the "Microsoft RDP Client Control", but have not been able to get it work correctly. I would like to be able to connect, change the screen size, etc.

I want to create a program that will prompt a user for a windows user name and password that authenticates against active directory. Once authenticated I want them to only be able to access particular forms based on their group permissions in active directory. For instance once logged in if they are in the Telnet group they can access the telnet portion of the program if not then they get a generic error telling them to contact their system administrator. They way I see it working is that when they log in it also checks to see what groups they are in and stores it as a variable. Each form that they then access checks that variable and if that group is not listed then the user will not have access to that portion of the program. Thanks for any and all help.

I am new to programming in Visual Basic .Net and I am looking to create my first real program. The program will contain a telnet and Ftp portion that I want users to be able to start by clicking on an icon on the main form. I then want that form to run in the main form and still allow the user to start the another form by minimizing the current form. If anyone has worked with Photoshop, I want to basically allow two or more forms to run at the same time (just like you can have to photo projects open at the same time) and allow them to be started by click an icon on the main form. The biggest problem I have is being able to create Icons that appear on a form similar to the picture shown below. I have various icons that I can use in .ico and .png format. I also need the forms to be able to be minimized and still appear on the main form so it can be maximized later if needed. Hopefully I have included all the information needed. Thanks

I would like to create a print function that will automatically put headers and footers on the document. This will be used to print out quotes to send to customers. The headers and footer will contain the company logo, address, etc, and needs to be in color. The body of the document will come from a text file that will be imported. I would like to also set a specific line that it should start at when it brings in the text file or prints it off. The way I see it working is that it uses Word objects to create the final document once all parts are put together.