Right now, I'm in C# Winform and I would like to use my Windows Application with ASP.NET including with Xamarin. So, I need to know, what kind of program do people often use to make application run in all kind of devices (Computer + Web Browser + Smartphone)? And what should I use, WPF or UWP or which one?
This question is a bit broad/unclear, but you could consider porting your app to an ASP.NET frontend, and then load it with a wrapper on mobile phones and desktops.
Essentially create native apps that in turn load the ASP.NET web app. This is a quite common approach as it reduces development time.
If I understand you clearly, you want to make an ASP.NET Core application.
That is an webapp and if you use bootstrap it will scale on every device.
And because you use Core, you can host the webapp on every server (windows, linux etc.)
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I have a simple server app that I need to re-write. Basically, uses async TCPSockets to allow multiple clients to connect & communicate asynchronously. Right now it is running as a winforms app & is managed as a windows service. I'm trying to decide if I should rebuild it in a similar way using WPF, or should I rebuild as an IIS MVC4 WebAPI app. I like all of the monitoring options & memory management built into IIS. This is definitely more familiar territory to me.
I'll need a nice GUI interface to see realtime statistics but this should be do-able as a web app. Is there any reason I wouldn't use MVC4 web API?
I'm newbie in WPF/Silverlight world. In the first step , I developed a "Hello world" application and simply run it but the problem is application successfully run only on Internet explorer. When I changed my browser like chrome or firefox etc, application pop up a Save window which means browser unable to understand the filetype. I want to know any plugin required to smothly run my WPF project on different web browsers.
IMO, You are referring to Silverlight and not WPF
WPF Applications are Desktop Applications and they are not made for Browsers.
And Silverlight is cross-platform, across browsers.
You can download and install the plugin from here,
http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/Get-Started/Install/Default.aspx
I think you are looking for Silverlight, not 100% sure tough
WPF browser based application can run in the IE and firefox web browser. One can use silverlight for implementing the WPf browser based application. But silverlight is the small subset of WPF framework. The machine running the WPF web browseer based application must be installed with the .Net runtime environment. WPF web browser based application ideally used for the intranet usages.
I have a desktop webscraper application written using C#.NET.
It works very simply. The user imports input data in txt/csv/Excel. The app exports scraped and orginized results in an output file (csv, html).
How can I make this accessible online, as a website?
I haven't done web programming before (only desktop) and I do not know any web programming languages. But I think I can learn ASP.NET and create similar webscraper functionality with it.
What kind of webhosting requirements do I have?
What you need to do is turn your desktop application into a library. Turn your EXE into a DLL with an API that does specific functions. This means separating functional operations from UI operations. Then, build a web application that uses this library to offer the same functionality online.
If you want to learn something new to build web applications, I suggest ASP.NET MVC and not ASP.NET Web Forms. MVC is much closer to web development than web forms.
As for web hosting requirements, Any web host that support ASP.NET should be able to run ASP.NET MVC.
I have done a little with ASP.NET but I think this will help you
I am developing an windows application and I need to load some local asp .net web pages.
how could I do this ?actually I need a local server application that works with my application then i can run asp .net web pages in my windows application.
tanks for your help
can I use asp .net development server as a component to work with my application?
IIS Express is a standalone instance of IIS that can be deployed to users (there's a .MSI).
IIS Express is, according to the linked page, a wrapper round "hostable web core" - which sounds like it might be an even better match to your needs - but I've not investigated that at all so can't comment on what's involved in using it.
As an aside, I'd have to agree that its a slightly strange requirement - you might want to clarify that.
So we already have a web service that was develop a long time ago. It's the legacy .net web service (not WCF)
I'm looking into how to build a web application that i'll be able to run on multiple different devices : IPhone, IPad, Android.
So far i've seen PhoneGap : http://www.phonegap.com/. This is interesting for us because it seems to allow us to use Native Device Features. Our app needs to use Scanning capabilities.
Since phonegap is based on HTML ... would it be possible to have it communicate with our legacy web service? How can this be achieved?
Let's say our app don't need to use any device native features, I guess just building a regular ASP.NET page should work right?
Do I have to make modification to our existing webservice? Like making it RESTful?
Any advice is appreciated,
Thanks,
You simply create an XMLHttpRequest in Javascript, pass in your GET/POST parameters, and handle the XML which the webservice returns. It's quite simple, really!
jQuery gives javascript developers $.get and $.post functions which make this extremely easy. Remember, you can use any javascript library and function supported by the devices webview within your phonegap application!
Titanium Appcelerator is another alternative.
The application is developed in javascript and native code generated for iPhone, Android and in the latest release for Blackberry as well.
EDIT: Here is a comparison of Phonegap and Titanium.
Related discussion on Stackoverflow:
Is Titanium appcelerator worth it for developing camera based application on ipad, iphone and android?