What are the different ways in which a web application can communicate to a windows application? I have heard that activex control events can be handled in javascript to achieve this.
Does WCF or any new technology provide a better implementation for this?
Can the publish/subscribe architecture be used here?
Is it possible to build a windows application to send articles to a blog I have developed?
View 1 Repliesi built a web based task manager / scheduler using vb.net
i need to add a small communication part to it to allow users to send messages to each other.
below is my concept design. the question is: is this the correct way of building a simple communicator or do you have better ideas?
I have a local application which parses data. What i need is to develop a web interface to query statistics and set configurations for the application thats running at all times. Since I am the developer of both applications I have full access to both source.
My main goals here are:
- have a service or app running at all times on the webserver doing most of the work
- have a webUI which will connect to this app and display stats and make configurations
- service/app will be writen in C#
- WebUI will be written in asp or php
- the WebUI must be accessable through the web domain ie: http://server/TestApp on default port 80 were there are other web apps running already.
I know there are ways to do this using a specific port to communicate to eachother, but i would like to avoid this. What is the best way to communicate between these apps?
I'm experiencing a to me mysterious error when sending e-mails through a SMTP-server from an ASP.NET web application. I get the famous error "unable to relay for xxx@yyy.zzz". What's mysterious to me is that when I cut and paste the exact same code that sends the e-mail into an usual .NET Windows Forms application, send the e-mail with this application, it all works just fine. This made me think that perhaps the problem is that the ASP.NET application runs as NETWORK SERVICE while the Windows Forms application runs on a domain user account, but it turns out that I have another ASP.NET application sending e-mail through the same SMTP-server running under NETWORK SERVER at the same IIS, and this application does not experience this problem.
I've further tried to send e-mails through the SMTP-server manually by telnet the smtp-server on port 25 and running the SMTP-protocol manually, and it all works fine. The SMTP-server is not configured with any kind of authentication or SSL.
Another mysterious fact is that the ASP.NET application can send e-mails from an adress within the same domain to an e-mail adress within the same domain, but not to any adress outside of the domain. But the Windows Forms application, that uses the exact same code, can send e-mails from any adress to any adress both within AND outside of the domain.
So to summarize:
The ASP.NET application can send
e-mails from addresses within the
domain to adresses within the domain,
but not to addresses outside of the
domain.
A Windows Forms application running
the same code on the same computer
can send e-mails from ANY address to
ANY address.
Another ASP.NET application on the
same IIS running under the same
account (NETWORK SERVICE) can send
e-mails using the same SMTP-server
from ANY adress to ANY adress.
There is no authentication configured
on the SMTP-Server.
Both the ASP.NET application and the
Windows Forms application utilizes
the System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient class
to send a
System.Net.Mail.MailMessage.
The code that sends the e-mail massage is:
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MailMessage mesasge = new MailMessage(txtFrom.Text, txtTo.Text, "Test mail", txtBody.Text);
SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient();
if (!(string.IsNullOrEmpty(txtUserName.Text))) //Is false since txtUserName.Text is empty
client.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(txtUserName.Text, txtPassword.Text);
client.EnableSsl = false;
client.Host = txtServer.Text;
client.Port = 25;
try
{
client.Send(mesasge);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
txtResponse.Text = ex.Message;
}
}
As far as I can understand, this should be a matter of configuration rather than coding issues.
I have some common dlls that are referenced by both a windows service application and a asp.net web application. I don't want to make separate copies of the dlls and I also don't want to put those dlls into GAC. I try to put that service application under the same root folder as the web application so that they can share the same bin folder. I am not quite sure if this will cause any problems? I did find the web application had random session timeout, but not very often. Not sure if it was caused by the shared dlls.
View 1 RepliesI have a simple windows form app that I need to get the file path for. I am placing a config file in the same directory and I need to be able to get the path to that file.
I have used
Application.CommonAppDataPath
but that returns the path with 1.0.0.0 at the end.
and
Applicaiton.StartupPath
but that returns the path with indebug at the end
Is there anyway to get the path to just the main file directory without anything appended to the end?
why is it that the exact same codes that i use to create a Windows application, which is able to work, does not work on a Web application? i created a windows application using c# and socket programming language. i will be connected to a remote server and through the windows application, and i will be able to send the "byte[] msg" to the server and activate the LED lightbulbs attached to the remote server. that exact same codes works well on the Windows application. however, when i create another Web application using the same exact codes, i does not have any error yet i am not able to activate the LED lightbulbs attached to it. is it that through the web or internet explorer i am not able to send the "byte[] msg" correctly? or that i sld modify "byte[] msg" to suit the web usage? or any other reasons?
View 7 RepliesI have a windows application and a web application. The windows as well as web application has a login page. The username and password are same for the windows and web application.
In the windows application, the user enters the username and password. With this username and password in windows application, is it possible to log into the web application? If yes, How to pass the data from windows application to web application, thereby logging into the web application. Is it possible to pass the username and password from a windows application to a web application?
Is it possible to convert a windows form application into a web application?
If it is not possible, how can I add the OpenFileDialog in a web application form?
I cannot see it in the toolbox if i choose new web application. On the other hand, I can see it if I choose windows form application.
I have a web page where I used a gridview and a button.When selecting rows in the grid and click on the button another windows application fires.I need to pass the values of the selected rows to the windows application.
Rightnow I'm saving the values in an xml file and fetch the values in the windows application.But this is not practical when creating xml files with random numbers(Scan125.xml,Scan7867.xml,etc).
I am going to design system that will keep track of publications due by researchers in my work place
Need for this project :
1- a database housing the information .
2- Automatic reports must be generated .
the users will upload PDF and we have around 25 researchers.
I can't decide which one is better for my system .
My questions are :
1- Local web application or windows application ?
2- Access or SQL as database ?
3- I have visual studio 2010 for student use, Could I use it or I need to buy one ?
I am used to working on C# .NET windows applications. I am interested in starting with web applications. good ebooks or references for C# ASP.net to begin with for a guy like me who is comfortable with windows applications?
View 3 Repliesis it possible to call or integrate the windows application into asp.net web application? is it yes then tell me how to do it.
View 1 RepliesI am beginner in the Windows Communication Foundation. I am reading about it. I am little bit confused with the word 'Windows'. WCF can be used for building the web services for window application as well as web application. Then what is meaning of the word 'Windows' in WCF ? Why we are calling it as a 'Windows' Communication foundation ?
View 5 RepliesWhen i create a Windows Service for getting information from a Web Application(ASP.NET c#) for scheduling some task in the client machine.
To consume WCF from the web application. I added WCF reference to Window Service project as a service reference, everything seems fine. It updated app.config file, added service reference etc.
it was not working.
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Is it possible to convert windows application to web application. if yes means how can do this.do u have any tools.if not means why.
View 1 RepliesI have a ASP.NET application. From that, User register, User will get email after registration. My Req : When user click on link provided in email. Then it should go to my ASP.Net application page . That page should install a wincows application on Client system through web ( I was inspired by Microsoft Windows update from Microsoft site)
View 1 RepliesIam using ftp client wrapper class for accessing ftp.
iam able to download files from ftp when used in windows application
when i try to use the same code with windows service i get an error
the error is
"The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive. "
this error i get on directory listing
the stack trace is:
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Note:
FTP is getting connected throgh service
FTP is getting connected throug FileZilla, internet explorer
soruce code:
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We have a website portal hosted in Windows 2003 server. For security reasons we are using different windows Login user say (xxxx) for signin other than Administrator. Now with this user (xxxx) name I installed .net Windows Application. It was working fine. For some reasons I renamed the original windows Login user(xxxx) to different say (yyyy). Now this .net Windows Application is not working with (yyyy) and even it is not allowing me to uninstall it.
View 3 RepliesI am create an iPhone app that needs to talk to a Windows C# app. The app will run as either a Service or Form Application.
What would be the best way to accomplish this? Ideally exposing a service-type architecture would be best as I don't need a stateful connection (stateless is fine in this case).
Can a WCF service hosted by my app using a form of TCP binding be consumed by my iPhone? Or can an app host using httpBinding without the aid of IIS or some other web server?
i have created one windows application in c# .net and its working fine in windows xp, but when i try to install the setup in windows 7 or vista,the setup never runs.. should i have to write some code for it.
View 2 RepliesI Need by service contract to return the xml/json result depending on the request type. function which will convert my result set (i am using linq to sql) so that i do not need to create the xml format for the result set by iterating through the table row many times.What is the suitable way to do that.
I need a kind of short cut method which will convert the table data to xml result.Had i been using asp.net mvc i would have been able to generate the xml data by overriding the the ExecuteResult method in the ActionResult and giving Conetnt-Type = "text/xml" as OP.But since i am using Wcf i don't have the controller context(as controller context is the parameter that needs to be passed to Execute Result).
My present code for converting the table data to the xml format is below.
public XDocument UsersLists(string authToken)
{
bool IsAuthenticated = Authenticate(authToken);
XDocument xDoc = new XDocument();
XElement root = new XElement("Users");
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I need to eliminate this way of generating xml for each table records.
Currently we are running an application build in VB6,ASP,Commerce Server2000 and Sql Server 2000. This application is running in Windows 2000 server.Now we are planning to migrate Windows server 2000 to Windows 2008.Will this application run in Windows 2008 or do we need to upgrade this application to dotnet and Sql 2008?
View 1 RepliesThis may sound like stupid question, but still need some clarification on this...When it comes to application development in a company for internal use, what should i use windows application and web application ... which one is more suitable and why ?
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