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At client side i have 5 machine with weight scale machine attached to it and my web application is running on it..what i m working on is as weight placed on machine on textbox blurr event i want to fetch this weight in my webform.
I am thinking of webservice that will be hosted on each client machine and on blurr event it will call webservice method which well do the com port reading part.
Kindly suggest on this appraoh
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Accessing client machine from a web application is not easy.
Most browsers provide limited access to the applications running inside them to avoid security issues.

ActiveX could allows access to the com port but activex itself requires permissions from the user.
 
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vivvicks 20-Nov-15 0:48am    
will hosting webservice at client side will work?

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