get data from windows aplication and show in the web page

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Hello! I am developing a web page and in this moment i am trying to get data from a windows aplication (visual basic form) and display this data in the web page. Anyone can give some help and some informacion? how i get some data from a windows form to display this data in the web page!

Thanks!!

Posted 31-Oct-13 7:33am

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Zoltán Zörgő 31-Oct-13 14:47pm

A web application is ran by a service (IIS). You can start a windows application from it, but you can hardly interact with that. And it can be a real problem when these instances are trying to access the same resources.

Bus as you tagged this question with "XML", I have to assume, that you don't need to run this app on page load or something. In that case you simply need to read that xml file.

So please clarify!

Member 10373002 31-Oct-13 15:25pm

hello Zoltán! Tanks for reply!I am using the xampp to develop the web page. But in this moment i want to display information in the web page from one windows form (visual basic). So i dont know what to do! I dont know the best way to do it!! can you give some help!
I put xml, but i dont know if i using this kind of file i can get the data from the form and show in the web page!
Can you help me!

Zoltán Zörgő 31-Oct-13 16:52pm

Sorry, but as you posed this question it can not be solved. You can't interact with a windows GUI application from PHP. Is the VB application your code?

Member 10373002 31-Oct-13 17:25pm

Yes, it is. Maybe i will need a dll to send the information to the server!? what is your opinion? Do you know what i need to do? thanks

Zoltán Zörgő 31-Oct-13 17:43pm

Than why do you need it? Recreate it's needed functionality in PHP. You could make a command line alternative of it that outputs the data in a file. What you want to do is not right.

Member 10373002 31-Oct-13 17:59pm

yes, i agree with you, but a i have a problem! I dont acess to the source code of visual bais! so i am trying to find another way to get the data from visual basic. do you anohther way?

Member 10373002 31-Oct-13 18:00pm

I dont have acess to the source code of visual basic..

Zoltán Zörgő 31-Oct-13 18:48pm

You wrote the code is yours. In this case, If you can, try to write the same functionality in PHP. Sorry, I can't help you further.

ZurdoDev 31-Oct-13 21:25pm

I don't think there is a way to get a web page to pull data from a windows app. Is the data not in a database? Just get it from there.

Member 10373002 1-Nov-13 6:39am

No, the data are in the register or files. I am learning and i dont know if i cant do it with web service! do you know how this work and if can i do it?

ZurdoDev 1-Nov-13 7:50am

Again, I don't know of any way for a web page (which is just HTML) to get data from a program running on your computer. That would be a huge security risk if it could because I could write a page that when you visit it it sends me everything you have open on your computer.

ZurdoDev 1-Nov-13 7:51am

Perhaps you can explain clearly what exactly your requirements are. Why does it need to be a web app? Why does it need data on a screen? That data has to be saved somewhere, why can't you get it from there?

Member 10373002 1-Nov-13 8:36am

Helo Ryan! My project is monitoring the state (on off start stop error ) of one equipment (machine) and send this information to the web page (server) to everyone can see! do you know the best way to send the information from the PC of the machine to the server (web page)? thanks!

ZurdoDev 1-Nov-13 8:43am

A web page is not on a server. The code that generates the web page is on the server but the web page is on a pc client machine. When you say you need to send the information to the server, what does that mean?

Member 10373002 1-Nov-13 8:53am

The web page is inside one server! To everyone acess the web page. Do you understand? So i need to acess the local pc machine get the data and send to remote server! ok?

ZurdoDev 1-Nov-13 8:59am

No, I do not understand. You need to be more clear. How are people accessing the web page? Do they open a browser and type the server's url in?

Member 10373002 1-Nov-13 9:40am

I put the web page in the server of the factory, so a lot of people can acess the web page. So in this moment i want monitor the state of the machines. So for this reason i need to send the information from the pc of the machines to the server of the factory. ok?

ZurdoDev 1-Nov-13 9:48am

So, create send the data to the server db and then have the website on the server read from that db.

Member 10373002 1-Nov-13 9:54am

yes and sorry:) Do you know the best way to do it?

ZurdoDev 1-Nov-13 9:57am

In your windows forms app use ADO.Net, meaning a SqlConnection and a SqlCommand object to write data to a sql database. Then the website can read that data.

Member 10373002 1-Nov-13 10:18am

ok thanks! Sorry but i have another question! Can I do this conection with web service using XML files?

ZurdoDev 1-Nov-13 10:18am

You can.

Member 10373002 2-Nov-13 14:28pm

Thanks:)

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