Create WEB GUI for .NET application? Possible?

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I have a VB.NET forms application running on a machine. What I would like to do is add a webpage to the app, so I can remotely login and control the app. E.G: Much like the settings page of a router. So the machine with the app running will act as a server that hosts the remote control GUI webpage.

I googled around and I don't know where to look, or how this is called. If anybody can point me in the right direction it is much appreciated.

What I have tried:

I googled around for web gui and alike, but I don not know how it is called, and what to look for.

Posted 15-Jun-20 3:20am

fanoftheplanet

Updated 15-Jun-20 3:45am

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ZurdoDev 15-Jun-20 9:44am

All you would do is create a web app that accesses the same data as your winforms app. There is nothing unique or special you need to look for.

fanoftheplanet 15-Jun-20 9:56am

Well, kinda... I need a realtime interface. It is a music player I am controlling. The web gui should show elapsed/remain and vu. And it will have stop, play,pauze... buttons on it.

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Garth J Lancaster · Answer 1 · 2020-06-15T03:46:00

Well, if it were me, I'd be looking at using maybe 'Nancy' to add a WebGUI to my app - obviously there's a lot of ifs/buts/whens etc to consider, but for example, it means you dont need to deploy an IIS component, because you can go the Nancy 'Self Hosted' route and it will supply the HTTPx backend for you

Take a look at Build Simple Web UIs with the Nancy Framework -- Visual Studio Magazine[^] and see if it looks like it might cover your case