Two Questions: Deployment | Backing up

[Hb_Kai]

Hey,

All it is is that when playing World of Warcraft people are having to clear their cache for the game to operate all the time, if they don't do this then the game bugs out in some places - so I thought of this as a way to get better at VB .NET by making a small application that asks for the directory of their WoW folder, searches through their cache folders and deletes the ones that they are also asked how they'd like to delete.

I don't plan on actually releasing this in any way, I just want to make it to further my VB .NET skills and hopefully get a little better.

Anyway, it doesn't make sense much, sorry about that, but all I want to ask is if this program will work on any other computer or will I have to find a way to deploy it?

Also, one thing that I thought I should put in this program is a backup function just in case something goes wrong. I just thought of moving the cache files that are being deleted somewhere else but this will move the files and folders one-by-one, is there any way I can make a certain type of file that only this program can read, where the files being backed up are placed in?


Sorry if this confuses people.

 

[Robert_Zenz]

Hello.

I wouldn't deploy such a small program with an installer at all. I'd make a .zip with the .exe and the libraries in it, sticking a label on it ".NET #.# required" and that's it.

The program should work ony every PC where the required .NET version (or higher) is installed. Though, on Vista system you'de have to run it as Administrator if you want to change something within the programs folder.

You could, of course, think of a simple file format to store the files in it, but I'd suggest to use an archive format, like zip. There's a pretty good .NET ZIP-Library out there...but if you use that one and ever plan to deploy or release the program, you'd have to stick to the GPL. However, for such a program I'd use it anyway.

Bobby

 

[Hb_Kai]

Okay. That sounds cool.

Thanks for your help. I'll give it a try.