Re: Computer.FileSystem.DeleteFile not working over network

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"Julia B" <JuliaB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:A4760C9B-E7EB-4F5D-8123-2E7356BFD94E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sorry about top posting, didn't know it was an issue.

Top-posting means people have to read backwards any thread that you reply to:
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Users have requested one application as, although only one PC will upload
documents, the users on that PC will also use all the other functions and
don't want to move between applications, so a web application has been
selected to be the best method for the whole thing.

All modern browsers are specifically written to prevent this sort of direct interaction with the hardware and software of the machine on which they're running, for obvious reasons. E.g. if a web app can delete C:\MyUploadFile.txt, what's to stop it also deleting C:\bootmgr? A bit of an extreme example, but I trust you get the point...


With this in mind is there any way around this?

Not natively... You'd need to look at some sort of ActiveX control for this, but that would mean that you'd have to ramp the browser security right down just to get it to load, never mind run...


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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
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