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Ok, I have a funky situation here. The client has an existing windows application that they want exposed via their c# asp.Net application. The windows app is not .Net based and we do not have the source code for it.
Their thought is to have the app running on the web server and essientally screen-scrape it two-ways (data in and data out) on their web app. They want to recreate the basic field layout (even including tab-order) on the web page and then have the submitted data submitted to the windows app. All of this done on the fly of course.
Now, I've been in Web development for a number of years but have never heard of anything like this working. The reason behind this is the windows app is known and liked in the target community and would take too long to recreate each screen (300+ pages).
Any advice anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated.
Their thought is to have the app running on the web server and essientally screen-scrape it two-ways (data in and data out) on their web app. They want to recreate the basic field layout (even including tab-order) on the web page and then have the submitted data submitted to the windows app. All of this done on the fly of course.
Now, I've been in Web development for a number of years but have never heard of anything like this working. The reason behind this is the windows app is known and liked in the target community and would take too long to recreate each screen (300+ pages).
Any advice anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: Integrating Legacy Windows app with ASP.Net app
Sat, October 15, 2005 - 5:39 PMhonestly, this sounds like something that is not possible.
I don't think it's possible to get the windows app's interface and scrape it. Even if you manage to get the handle of the window, there's not much you can do in terms of figuring out the elements of the interface...unless the old app is using some third party libraries for the UI, that you can tap into somehow.
