It seems that the developers are deploying manually (Copy & Paste components to virtual directory) to run the windows application from web browser. They doing building, moving the all bin files to virtual directory when ever application is updated.
This process generally has the security limitations and hard to manage. I just want to share and suggest there is a known easy way to deploy the windows application to web server and run the file from user’s machine. Visual Studio 3.5 provides the Click Once deployment which replaces all this process.
ClickOnce deployment allows you to publish Windows-based applications to a Web server or network file share for simplified installation. It provides full support for publishing and updating applications deployed with ClickOnce.
ClickOnce can provide automatic application updates. A ClickOnce application periodically reads its deployment manifest file to see if updates to the application are available. If available, the new version of the application is downloaded and run. For efficiency, only those files that have changed are downloaded.
So instead of doing the manual deployment it is easy to use this process which reduces the manageability. I suggest using this, helps through out the time till the application expires.
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