Question

I am trying to create a program that the user must run the .exe from his/her desktop… If they try to run it from somewhere else i would like to have the .vbs pop up file I created to show up telling them to place it on the desktop. I have already made the program and it works fine, but people can’t read the instructions, so I thought this might be a good approach. Unfortunatley, I am having trouble with it and I am going nowhere. If someone could help me, that would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I don’t really understand why you’d want to do this but you could check in Main to see if the app was run from the Desktop

static void Main()
{

  var AsmPath =System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName( 
    System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().CodeBase ) ;

   var desktopPath = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop);

  if (AsmPath == desktopPath)
  (
      MessageBox.Show ("You can only run this from the desktop");
      Application.Exit();
  )
  else 
       Application.Run(new Form1());
}