Opening a notepad.exe through client side ASP.NET application

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Need to know about opening a exe from asp.net application.It works fine in development machine through "Process",But if i host the same in web server when i click the function for opening exe (Notepad.exe) it opens in the web server not in user machine. Is there any way to open it user side.

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Siva

What I have tried:

tried using Process.Start but it opens in server machine

Posted 24-Aug-17 1:36am

Sivachandran R

Updated 24-Aug-17 4:04am

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Thomas Daniels · Answer 1 · 2017-08-24T01:41:00

Solution 1

All of your ASP.NET code runs on the server, so it makes sense that it opens notepad on your server. Your server returns HTML/CSS/JavaScript to the client. However, JavaScript can't run applications on the client computer, for obvious security reasons. So, you cannot do what you want here.

Posted 24-Aug-17 1:41am

Thomas Daniels

Patrice T · Answer 2 · 2017-08-24T04:04:00

Solution 2

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it opens in the web server not in user machine.

Because ASP runs on server.
A webapp can't run anything on client side because of a silly thing named security.
If a webapp was able to do such things, any website would be able to turn your PC to a zombie.

Posted 24-Aug-17 4:04am

Patrice T