I've got a text based system currently opperating via telnet sessions
that I'm thinking of doing graphically w/.Net but am not sure If I can
reproduce the same benefits in Windows.
Basically it consists of a hierarchy of simple menus screens. Each
menu screen has a list of database programs that can be run by
choosing the program or pressing its #. The programs/sub menus listed
depends on who logged in (some people have access to only certain
areas)
When a program or sub menu is chosen it runs an when it fishishes it
returns to the calling menu.
Can something like this or better be done w/ .NET?
So far I've only thought of 2 ideas but they seem flawed:
1. A Web based menu system that displays the menu items as links to
..Net programs. [Seems slow and its hard for the web page to pass login
info to the lauched programs]
2. One large .Net program w/ containing the menus and code for all the
programs.
[Not practical]
I'm also dissapointed by how long it takes for a .Net program to show
up. It takes several seconds.
I'd like to use .Net though because it is nice to code for and
simplifies a lot of tasks.
Any ideas on how to make this work? Is windows not a good choice for
this? Or is there a totally better way to organize it?
I'd really appreciate any suggestions or advice, thanks.