Using Process/ProcessStartInfo to control 3rd pary app - Need to move

[SBendBuckeye]

Hello all,

We control a 3rd pary app by using the Process class along with ProcessStartInfo because the 3rd pary app is loaded locally on user machines. This is done from a front end Windows form. When the required information has been loaded, the user fires off the 3rd pary app by clicking a button on the Windows form.

Management wants to move the 3rd pary app to a server because it is a resource hog and can take a long time to run and can really bog down user machines in certain situations.

How do I fire off an app on a separate server and communicate with it from my Windows form? The user will still need to set up the data on the front end Windows form, only instead of firing off a local process when they click the button, it will now need to fire off a remote process instead.

Thanks in advance for any ideas and/or suggestions!

 

[jebenson]

Go with a client/server setup. Create an app that resides on the server with the 3rd party app, and performs the control functions on the 3rd party app. On the users' PCs create an app that they use to set up the data, and when the button is clicked it sends the data to the app on the server which then starts the 3rd party app.



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