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  • inga2005
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    Connect to barcode scanner from website

    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
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    • Mark Rae [MVP]
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      Re: Connect to barcode scanner from website

      "inga2005" <erik@liffner.s ewrote in message
      news:68887d8a-71e1-46a8-88ed-4d6e0485925c@d1 g2000hsg.google groups.com...
      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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