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>Hi,
>
>I'm currently using VB6 and contemplating upgrading to
>Visual Basic .NET.
>
>My requirements are quite specific, what I want to do is
>write an application that is distributed over the web (I
>don't believe that this can be done via web pages). The
>application will run through the users web browser (or
>similar) and is capable of transferring data between the
>users PC and the web server.
>
>I recently read about "Activex Documents" which appeared
>to do what I wanted, however I have since found out that
>this functionality has been removed from VB .NET.
>
>In simple terms a user goes to a web address to access
the
>application, if this is the users first visit to the URL
>then the application is automatically downloaded and
>started up. The application must be able to use most (if
>not all) of the form controls available through VB in the
>downloaded application e.g. datagrid, treecontrol, menus,
>all the usual stuff etc. Obviously the application must
>have the capability to interact with the web server in
>order to exchange data in the background.
>
>My questions are:
>
>Can this be done in VB .NET ?
>
>If yes, in very high level terms, How ?
>
>Also does the web server need to support some
>additional .NET application (framework) in order to allow
>this to happen (I've read somewhere that VB .NET needs
>certain applications running on the web server to do this)
>
>I know that Java has this ability and I'm sure that
>VB .NET does too, however I've not seen this in any
>documentation and don't want to upgrade if VB .NET can't
>do this.
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>.