Creating a server based web application in C#

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Greetings All.
I am an experienced developer but am moving into a new area for me, web development. I want to create an application which is accessed by a browser but runs on the server, accessing files on the server, and returning the results to the browser. I have made one attempt using VS2010 Express and the WPF template. The app works fine in the debugger, or if I start it directly on the server by clicking on the publish.htm file. When I attempt to access the application from a remote web browser I get trust errors. I found that if I go into the remote browser's internet options security tab and go to the local intranet zone and click the sites button then advanced I can add the web sight to the zone. The application then opens but accesses file on the local machine not the server. I think I am going about this the wrong way. What I would like to create is a client server application where the client interface is a web page. Since this is a teach myself endevor I am floundering with the best choice of tools to use. Any suggestions on how to design this application would be very helpful. Should I use a different template, not use vs2010? I have read references to silverlight, what is that and is it relevant to what I am trying to do? Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Dave

Posted 13-Jun-12 9:00am

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SoMad · Answer 1 · 2012-06-13T09:23:00

One way you could go about this is by using some of the very latest stuff from Microsoft - ASP.NET Web API[^]. Since this is for your own use and I assume you would like to try to learn something new, I think that might fit the bill.
On the server side, you can host your API in IIS, or it can be self-hosted (sample[^]).
You have not mentioned what your target clients are, but this kind of interface makes it easier to build client apps for all kind of devices.

Soren Madsen

Vani Kulkarni · Answer 2 · 2012-06-13T18:01:00

Hello Dave,

Please go through the link given below, it has simple way of creating a web application with VS2010.

http://vishaljoshi.blogspot.com/2009/05/creating-simple-net-40-web-app-using.html[^]

For deployment of your application on the server, here is an explanation from Microsoft with various ways of deployment. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd394698.aspx[^]

joost.versteegen · Answer 3 · 2012-06-13T21:05:00

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you might have a look at visualwebgui

Posted 13-Jun-12 21:05pm

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