John,
First, if this is going to be a web-based application, do you mean that
you are going to have a web-based front end (i.e. something in a browser) or
will you have a client app that performs operations over the web? If the
answer is the former, then you don't have to worry about the client
machines, as you are programming against the browser (not literally, but
that is what you have to worry about when it comes to platform
considerations). If you are going to have a client app, then I don't know
if you will be able to use .NET, since Windows 98 is a requirement (one I'd
seriously reconsider).
As for the server side, you can implement this in anything you want,
since you will be controlling the server. If all of your client code is in
C++, I wouldn't exactly rush to expose the functionality as COM components.
If you did this, and you were hosting in ASP.NET (one of the options, the
other is in WCF), then you would have to set ASPCompat to true on all of
your pages that call these COM components and it would cause a performance
hit.
I think the best bet would be to create managed wrappers for your code
using the CLI extensions for C++, and then use ASP.NET or WCF to make calls
to your components.
Hope this helps.
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Hi all,
We have one product. It is client/server based application. We
have developed client application in VC++ 6.0. Our client is desktop
based
application like dialog based application. Client application will connect
to
server according to user requests. This is current scenario.
We would like to make this application as a web-based
application. I have core functionality in VC++ application in client
application. I can put this functionality in com dlls also.
To achieve this web-based approach, what technologies I have
to
select? Can you please advise me? I am planning to select aspx pages for
web-page and com dll for core functionality in VC++. Is it correct
approach?
I have to give compatibility for Microsoft Windows NT/ 2000, Professional
98
SE to Windows Vista and windows 2003 server.
I will implement everything in .NET if .NET is correct
technology for this web-based application. But, I need to reuse my client
code in web-based application.
Please suggest me.
Thanks in advance
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Thanks & Regards,
John Prasad (dkds)