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Communicating from the Browser to a Desktop Application

MarkGladding

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17 May 2009CPOL15 min read

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A very simple application that uses text to speech to speak out loud the currently selected block of text in your web browser.

browser-to-desktop-app.zip
- BrowserSpeak
  - BrowserSpeak.sln
  - BrowserSpeak
    - AboutForm.cs
    - AboutForm.Designer.cs
    - AboutForm.resx
    - bin
      - Debug
      - Release
        
        BrowserSpeak.exe
        
        BrowserSpeak.vshost.exe
        
        BrowserSpeak.vshost.exe.manifest
    - BrowserSpeak.csproj
    - BrowserSpeak.ico
    - HttpServer
    - MainForm.cs
    - MainForm.Designer.cs
    - MainForm.resx
    - Program.cs
    - Properties
    - Resources
      - bomb.png
      - BrowserSpeak.ico
      - comment.png
      - cross.png
      - dummy.gif
      - house.png
      - pause_icon.png
      - resultset_next.png
      - user_comment.png
    - Speech
  - WebSite
    - BookmarkletsPage.htm
    - PauseSpeaking.ico
    - pausespeaking.js
    - pausespeaking.min.js
    - resultset_next.png
    - resumespeaking.js
    - resumespeaking.min.js
    - SpeakText.htm
    - SpeakText.ico
    - speaktext.js
    - speaktext.min.js
    - StopSpeaking.ico
    - stopspeaking.js
    - stopspeaking.min.js
    - Web.config

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