drrocket5292
Technical User
I'm not sure if this in the right forum but I couldnt find one that would be more fitting. I built a windows application in VB.NET and was hoping to get advice on deploying it. I work for a financial company that is constantly bringing in agents to work for us. When they join our company they have to transfer their book of business over to us and I wrote an application that allows them to easily enter their book of business and puts it into an Access database that can then be easily imported into our company's database.
Due to all sorts of SEC and federal laws though, we aren't allowed to house that database (the one with the agent's book of business) on any of our servers until after the agent has officially joined us, but we want him to use this program and enter in his book of business before hand so that on the first day he joins, we can import his data. Several people, such as his secretary or any of his other associates may also use this program to enter in his book of business, so I cant just install it on the agent's hard drive since other people will need to access the database from their computers. So what I would like to do is to have the Access database install itself onto a shared drive that the agent chooses when he first installs my program.
Can someone give me directions on how I could let an installer dynamically choose where to install the back end database? Thanks for the help.
Due to all sorts of SEC and federal laws though, we aren't allowed to house that database (the one with the agent's book of business) on any of our servers until after the agent has officially joined us, but we want him to use this program and enter in his book of business before hand so that on the first day he joins, we can import his data. Several people, such as his secretary or any of his other associates may also use this program to enter in his book of business, so I cant just install it on the agent's hard drive since other people will need to access the database from their computers. So what I would like to do is to have the Access database install itself onto a shared drive that the agent chooses when he first installs my program.
Can someone give me directions on how I could let an installer dynamically choose where to install the back end database? Thanks for the help.