Hi,
I'm new to ASP .NET...advice/help welcome. Read some posts & the FAQ's.
We use a custom written desktop application for almost all of our business. The data part is SQL 2000 based. The desktop program has a large sub window within it that is IE based.
The menu tree in the small left window can be set to display different web pages via external INI files, (think, IE with the favourites switched on kind of view).
So...it would be really useful for us to see all the orders that are due for shipment today, displayed in neat web page (this is now done, using a datagrid, pulling read only details from the SQL server).
This is hosted on the client, (all clients Windowxs XP Pro).
When you click on the datagrid button column, it passes the # of that order to an external VB .NET exe - which then does the Appactivate & sendkeys functions to present you with that order.
It works, but it's not neat...
I amended it to use a VB Script placed in the Head section of the main ASPX page, using mainly the wshshell.sendkeys function - and that worked a lot better (when manually fired) - but now I cannot seem to connect that VB Script function to link button in the datagrid.
There must be a better way & I'm just not getting it!?!? Best to ask before I 'mangle' this app again...
I was thinking something like an external DLL (containing the sendkey function in VB .NET) referenced by the aspx web page? (never made a DLL before - not sure)
What would an ASP .NET experienced person advise?
Paul