Web UI For Desktop Application

[liadmz]

Hi,

Does anyone familiar with a Tutorial/Guide for creating a web ui for a desktop application.

I would like to have the option to control my application via the browser (remotely).

Thanks,
Lee

[PsychoCoder]

You could use the WebBrowser Control and embed it into your application.

[liadmz]

Hi PsychoCoder,

Thanks for the reply.

I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing, I'm looking for a way to provide the user with a web interface (so the app can be controlled remotely).

Thanks.

[Curtis Rutland]

You have a few options here. How do you want this to work? Are you going to host the web application from the same computer that the desktop application lives on? If so, you can install both, and use what's known as Inter-Process Communication (IPC), possibly using Named Pipes or something similar.

It's also possible for your application itself to become a web server. Not easy, but doable. Then the application can serve the web application itself and react appropriately.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httplistener.aspx

[liadmz]

Thanks A lot !
This HTTP listener it the missing peace in the puzzle.

Thanks!