ASP communications with a separate application?

[Martin]

I want to create an ASP page that can retrieve some data from my
custom-written VB6 application (which would be running on a different
computer than the ASP server). Is it possible/ workable/ feasible/
practical to create an activex dll (written in VB6) that would be in
the ASP which could connect to my program via a Winsocket and pass the
needed info back and forth?

I have experience with exchanging info between two programs using
Winsockets; what I don't know is, would this work in the activeX DLL /
ASP situation.

Any thoughts?

[Jeff Cochran]

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 14:04:05 -0700, Martin <ma**********@comcast.net>
wrote:

I want to create an ASP page that can retrieve some data from my
custom-written VB6 application (which would be running on a different
computer than the ASP server). Is it possible/ workable/ feasible/
practical to create an activex dll (written in VB6) that would be in
the ASP which could connect to my program via a Winsocket and pass the
needed info back and forth?
Probably.
I have experience with exchanging info between two programs using
Winsockets; what I don't know is, would this work in the activeX DLL /
ASP situation.

Any thoughts?

Try a VB6 group, you basically don't need ASP since you're using an
ActiveX control.

Jeff

[Martin]

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 13:10:26 GMT, je*********@zina.com (Jeff Cochran)
wrote:

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 14:04:05 -0700, Martin <ma**********@comcast.net>
wrote:

I want to create an ASP page that can retrieve some data from my
custom-written VB6 application (which would be running on a different
computer than the ASP server). Is it possible/ workable/ feasible/
practical to create an activex dll (written in VB6) that would be in
the ASP which could connect to my program via a Winsocket and pass the
needed info back and forth?

Probably.

I have experience with exchanging info between two programs using
Winsockets; what I don't know is, would this work in the activeX DLL /
ASP situation.

Any thoughts?

Try a VB6 group, you basically don't need ASP since you're using an
ActiveX control.

What I'm trying to come up with is a way to allow ASP to access the
data that is being generated by my VB6 program. Then I (or someone
else) could create a web-interface to my current program.

[Bullschmidt]

Well if possible it sounds like it might be a job for using
querystrings.

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[Larry Bud]

> What I'm trying to come up with is a way to allow ASP to access the

data that is being generated by my VB6 program. Then I (or someone
else) could create a web-interface to my current program.

If your VB6 program is storing data in a database, then ASP can access
it. In what format is the data from the VB6 prog stored?

[Martin]

On 6 Jul 2004 10:27:15 -0700, la**********@yahoo.com (Larry Bud)
wrote:

What I'm trying to come up with is a way to allow ASP to access the
data that is being generated by my VB6 program. Then I (or someone
else) could create a web-interface to my current program.

If your VB6 program is storing data in a database, then ASP can access
it. In what format is the data from the VB6 prog stored?

Some of the information is stored in a database (MS Access). And, I
realize that ASP could get at that directly. But, if nothing else,
doing so would introduce concurrency issues. I would much prefer to
have only one program "hitting" the database.

In any case, other parts of the information is "live" in the VB6
program. For the most part, it's stored in variables - some of it is
in an INI file. The VB6 program is interacting with some industrial
equipment so some of the data is resident in other devices which are
accessed via a network.

[Jeff Cochran]

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 07:27:35 -0700, Martin <ma**********@comcast.net>
wrote:

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 13:10:26 GMT, je*********@zina.com (Jeff Cochran)
wrote:

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 14:04:05 -0700, Martin <ma**********@comcast.net>
wrote:

I want to create an ASP page that can retrieve some data from my
custom-written VB6 application (which would be running on a different
computer than the ASP server). Is it possible/ workable/ feasible/
practical to create an activex dll (written in VB6) that would be in
the ASP which could connect to my program via a Winsocket and pass the
needed info back and forth?

Probably.

I have experience with exchanging info between two programs using
Winsockets; what I don't know is, would this work in the activeX DLL /
ASP situation.

Any thoughts?

Try a VB6 group, you basically don't need ASP since you're using an
ActiveX control.

What I'm trying to come up with is a way to allow ASP to access the
data that is being generated by my VB6 program. Then I (or someone
else) could create a web-interface to my current program.

That would depend on how the data is available. If for example your
VB program will generate XML, then an ASP page is easy. If your VB
program simply aggregates data from other sources, maybe using ASP to
those other sources will work. Or you could rewrite the interface of
your VB app in VB.NET.

Jeff