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Re: Running a C# program w/GUI through a web browser

Peter van der Goes
5/10/2005 7:29:47 AM

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You'll have to redesign the interface using the web controls, which will
also entail quite a bit of interface handling code rewrite. AFAIK, there is
no easy way to "convert" a Windows app to a web app. If the Windows app was
properly designed, the data processing functionality (in separate methods
from code involved with the GUI) should easily transfer.

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Re: Running a C# program w/GUI through a web browser

Magnus Gran-Jansen
5/10/2005 7:46:01 AM

Hi,

First, thankyou for your answer!

I just found something interesting called "Hosting Windows Forms controls in
Internet Explorer", where I create a Windows Control Library. Have you heard
about that? Do you know if it could be used for this?

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Re: Running a C# program w/GUI through a web browser

Magnus Gran-Jansen
5/10/2005 10:18:07 AM

Here is some information on it:
http://www.syncfusion.com/FAQ/WindowsForms/FAQ_c101c.aspx
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/030610.htm

I am currently having some problems getting just something basic of this to
work, but it seems like it is similar to Java applets.

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Re: Running a C# program w/GUI through a web browser

Peter van der Goes
5/10/2005 11:48:39 AM

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No, I haven't. Hopefully somebody else will jump in with more info. Do you
have a link?

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Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
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Re: Running a C# program w/GUI through a web browser

Alvin Bruney [MVP - ASP.NET]
5/11/2005 6:13:49 PM

Hosting will not work for you without a lot of work. Part of the reason is
that your control is manipulating desktop objects. IE's sandbox architecture
does not allow this. So, one approach I can think of is to take the existing
assemblies you have and port the code to a visual basic 6 project where you
can construct an ActiveX control out of the existing code. The output of the
ActiveX control is an object with a CLSID. Take the CLSID and embed it in a
webforms page so it runs as a COM control. That part is easy, just use an
object tag with the correct ID. For instance,
<object id="myObj" CLSID="asdf23432"/>

The difficult part is porting the code to vb6. From there, IE will call the
component and it will pop the activeX permissions control object requesting
permissions to execute code on the desktop. makes sense?

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