Unable to run my C# .net 2.0 application from a network machine. How to make it fail gracefully?

Question

Tried out many things to run my application from a network location but nothing worked except increasing the Zone security for Internet Zone in the local machine to Full Trust using Microsoft .net framework 2.0 configuration.

Hence now I am trying to at least handle the error that occurs when I try to run the application from a network location and make it fail gracefully. But I am not able to do this also as the catch block, at the beginning of my code, where I am demanding fulltrust is not being executed at all. Can somebody suggest a way to do this?

My application uses Microsoft Report Viewer.

Answer 1

In your Program.cs file is a line that starts the application, similar to the following:

Application.Run(new Form1());

You can, instead, replace it with the following:

try
{
    Application.Run(new Form1());
}
catch (SecurityException)
{
    // inform the user that they are not set up to run this application
}

This should catch any Full Trust issues that arise.