Connect to barcode scanner from website

inga2005

Hi!
Does anyone know if it is possible to, from a website, connect to a
barcode scanner connected to a client pc?
I have done this with a winform app but thats simple, now I want to do
the same thing from a website.
I'm using asp.net 2.0 and c#

Regards Erik

Sep 23 '08 #1

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Mark Rae [MVP]

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Does anyone know if it is possible to, from a website, connect to a
barcode scanner connected to a client PC?

Not natively - all modern browsers are designed specifically to prevent any
direct interfacing with the hardware and software of the machine on which
they are running, for fairly obvious security reasons...

I have done this with a WinForms app

Totally different architecture...

now I want to do the same thing from a website.

The only possible solution here would be to find (or write) an ActiveX
control. However, this would mean that your web app would be restricted to
IE, and you'd need to ramp the security right down just to get it to
install. Not recommended...
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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

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