ASP .NET integration question

[nospam]

I am currently developing a distributed application and have questions on
integrating a web form interface into it. Currently the core component is a
Windows forms application and it uses .net remoting to communicate with
slaves that are windows services. I'd like to add a web ui to the core
component to allow a user to do a very small subset of what they can do
through the windows forms gui. My understanding that the asp stuff will be
running in an iis process, so cross process communication (.net remoting)
will have to be added, so that the asp .net app can communicate w/ the core
app. Are there any alternatives to accessing the applications resources from
an asp? One idea I was thinking about was to have a web service interface
for the core app, and then have an asp gui for the web service. The only
prob w/ this is, can a windows forms app serve a web service?

[Hermit Dave]

well you are already using remoting. why not settle on creating a remoting
interface for asp.net. if you wish to get it closer to webservices maybe use
soap formatter and http for communication.. i think from xp sp2 onward and
in windows 2003 you have host webservice by directly pluggin into http.sys.

i read on Don Box's blog a long time back and you should find more on the
line of code snippet here
http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/dbox/d...?month=2004-03

Just FYI Don Box is on Indigo team and you might find more of snippets on
..net 2.0 rather than 1.1. Search up the net... you should find some good
stuff.

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Regards,

Hermit Dave
(http://hdave.blogspot.com)
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I am currently developing a distributed application and have questions on
integrating a web form interface into it. Currently the core component is a Windows forms application and it uses .net remoting to communicate with
slaves that are windows services. I'd like to add a web ui to the core
component to allow a user to do a very small subset of what they can do
through the windows forms gui. My understanding that the asp stuff will be running in an iis process, so cross process communication (.net remoting)
will have to be added, so that the asp .net app can communicate w/ the core app. Are there any alternatives to accessing the applications resources from an asp? One idea I was thinking about was to have a web service interface
for the core app, and then have an asp gui for the web service. The only
prob w/ this is, can a windows forms app serve a web service?