is this possible? If yes, it would be wonderful.
Several related links below:
(1) http://www.theserverside.net/tt/articles/showarticle.tss?id=RunFromWeb
(2) http://www.visualwebgui.com/Developers/Resources/Tutorials/tabid/365/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/398/How-to-Migrate-a-WinForms-application-to-the-Web-using-Visual-WebGui.aspx
Second link commments points out lots of problems encountered.
I believe this is not that straightforward, and there are limitations and problems.
My fairly complex application (Winforms) consists of buttons, listboxes, communicating with hardware via Serial Port, create directories, save files, connecting and updating databases, etc. Because of some deployment constraints, I have to convert that Winforms to Webforms.
If we are able to run those created WinForms Applications from the Web Browser, it would benefit a lot of developers like us.
Any experts who have this kind of experience, I would appreciate your comments and suggestions.
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Well, I'm not familiar with Visual WebGui but my gut reaction is that trying to convert a Windows Forms application into an ASP.NET application using a tool is going to give you nothing but grief.
The two types of applications are 'chalk and cheese' and, as we saw in your last thread, trying to do something which is trivially easy in Windows Forms, can be a nightmare in ASP.NET.
If I were you, I'd rethink the web application from scratch as there will inevitably be some compromises you need to make when converting the UI from Windows Forms. Hopefully, though, most of your non-UI code can be ported directly.
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Visual Web GUI (http://www.visualwebgui.com/) seems to have a very professional product for such purpose. Perhaps it is worth a try, and I will let you know the results after my testing.
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Fair enough. I look forward to hearing whether it's any good.