General Information for Installing and Building Bioapps

Installation:
 
Pre-requisites:
 
It is necessary that the person doing the installation has administrative privileges on the computer.
 
If you are not an administrator, you will have to build the solution from the source code to use the application's binaries.
 
Steps for Installation
 
1) Download the application's installer (.msi) and double click on the installer. This should begin the installation process.
 
2) The default location for each application is
 C:\Program Files\CTCBioApps\<Application Name>\<Version>\
 
3) To run the test scripts provided in the Sample Code zip file, it is necessary to accept this default installation location. (If you change the default location, make sure that you modify the test scripts to match your installation directory)
 
4) Follow the directions of the installer.
 
Installation System Modifications
 
You should see the following registry keys added to HKLM\Software
 
Cornell Theory Center\BioApps\<Application>\<Version>
 
Steps for removing the application
 
1) Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove programs.
 
2) Select the application and click remove button.

Building the Application from Source code
 
1) Download the solution zip file, expand the files, and open Visual Studio solution file using Visual Studio .NET 2003. (the .sln file).
 
2) Select the Debug/Release configuration (default is release) and build the solution (Click Build -> Build Solution OR Build -> Rebuild Solution).