VB as thin client

[ITphile]

Hi All,

I'm interested in making my VB application run on Thin Clinet (aka dumb terminals). Is that really possible and if so how best to do it? What are criteria for Server-program, components, hardware etc?


WAiting for your valuable comments

It Phile

 

[Ogi]

Hi,

You can't run apps on the terminal, you need to write you app to run on the server, publish it and then create a connection from the terminal to the published app!

Does this help?
Carl.

 

[SemperFiDownUnda]

What is your actual terminal? Is it a low end spec windows box? If so then DCOM is for you or maybe a Intranet application that runs via a browser.

There are many ways to write a thin client but it depends on what you have to work with and what your needs are from the application to be writen.

Sorry Ogi but your statement doesn't make much sense to me. In windows terminoligy there are not any "Dumb Clients". Even if you talk about the old windows Terminal server setups ... to the application it was just a normal app and the server just pumped screen updates down and captured keyboard and mouse event up. The new terminal server works similiar just that actual devices used as terminals is a glorified browser running on normal workstations.