As an alternative, we don't use any batch or cmd files.

Right after opening the application at startup, we have the code of our application get the current PATH and then prepend it with the extra PATHs that we need. Only works for the current session.

To achive this goal, we use the API functions

function boolean GetEnvironmentVariableW(ref string lpName, ref string lpBuffer, ref ulong nSize) library "KERNEL32.DLL"
function boolean SetEnvironmentVariableW(ref string lpName, ref string lpBuffer) library "KERNEL32.DLL"

For this to work, in our shortcut the "start in" folder has to be set to where the pbruntime dlls are. In our case it's a subfolder of where the EXE is. The shortcuts are created by our installer program (wix installer).

regards

Hi Chris,

or is there a way to add in the PowerClient "External Files", files from a subfolder directly into the application folder? It alway creates the subfolder that the files are in. Our problem is that we have all of our additional files, that need to be in the application folder, in a sub folder. When deploying normaly, we can, if needed, move with our own deployment, these files into the application folder. In the web deployment, this is not possible without changing everything and moving everthing into the target folder. We realy do not want to do this.

We hope you can help us.

Kind regards

Mike

Hi Chris, thank you for answering so fast.

Yes, we tried it out and research this online if it's allowed. We don't remember where we found the answer, either in the community or in stackoverflow, but someone said that deep down in the documentation that this is aloud.

So, we reorganized a lot of the things that needed to be in the exe folder and put it in a sub folder. We then changed the setting in the deployment for the exe to two sub folders, runtime and our other and it created the exe with the xml perfectly. It works great and we love it.

The problem now is that we want to deploy also with the web deployment. There we can’t set anything that would influence the xml file. When we get in between manually after the web deployed exchanges the xml and change it to the one we would like to have, it works again perfectly.

Is there any chance to for us to exchange the xml when deploying via web deployment (CloudAppLauncher)?

Or is there another way to clean up our exe folder and have things search in a sub folder like the runtime?

Kind regards

Mike

Hi Michael;

  The RuntimePath in the <AppName> XML file is only used by the App EXE to locate the PB runtime at start-up. Nothing else.

   Are you looking to add more paths for the App to use besides the PB runtime?

Regards ... Chris