It is technically possible to have a windows form run on a remote
machine through the browser. You would have to create an active x
control for the browser to do this. It can also be accomplished through
a Java Applet. To be honest with you if you are having trouble
converting a simple app over to a web app you probably would have a very
hard time writing such an active x control or a java applet. One way to
do this with an active x control is to have the control actually copy
the app and run it on the client machine in a given context. The up side
on this is once you had created your active x you could sell it. There
are products for sell out there that do this sort of thing. I actually
used java applets that do this sort of thing. The one I used brought
the entire desktop forward. Every single window on the screen has a
windows handle. so isolated a single window would not be hard for an
applet. Remember applets are actually windows programs that run in the
contex of the browser.
I know this isn't the answer you are looking for but it is the truth.
You should consider Terminal services or Cirex. I'm not sure I spelled
cirex correctly. Cirex is actually very expensive and terminal services
is not free and demands tremendous resources. You would need a
dedicated server for either implementation.
Wiz
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