What do you think about this idea? - Data between two apps

[x508]

I am looking to do the following:

My app has an extension which will be run on a variety of different geographical areas. When this extension is used, I will write a comma Sep e-mial body and send it to the main app. The email body will then be copied into a form on the main app, which will extract the appropriate data from the comma sep string

What would be your opinions on this...do you think that this method will be affective,sufficient etc. Can you perhaps suggest better methods of sending data between two applications?

Thanks for your time and opinion

P.S. Eventually it will migrate to SQL or MySQL server over xDSL, so then I can just update the db directly from the client app, but not all locations now have got xDSL so i'm looking for a temp fix (6 months to a year)

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[bboffin]

It'll work fine. I've been doing this for years except that I use attachments. The only possible problem is that emails are not guaranteed to be delivered.

It hasn't happened to me probably because I'm using Exchange and all the email addresses that I'm sending data between are on the same Exchange server.

I'd also recommend using XML format rather than CSV as it's much more flexible and easier to decode once you've mastered the XML DOMDocument object model.

 

[mmilan]

If both machines are on the same network, and the application is running on both machines at the same time, you might consider using the Winsock control to pass the data.

If on the other hand there is a chance that the receiving machine might not be ready to receive, email is perhaps the way to go...

mmilan

 

[x508]

Thanks

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