Smart Client without IIS?

[Guest]

HI,

Due to some ridiculous policy decisions at my company, I'm not able to
use IIS for any ASP.Net or web services. I am, though, about to start
building a C#-based winforms app. I'm a little perplexed about the best
way to handle deployment. I'm willing to use the installer for initial
installs, but want a smart client-style method for updates from a file
server. I'm considering building a small launcher utility that compares
dll versions and handles the download, but would prefer something more
native in the framwork. I should also mention that I have the option of
using java-based web services.
Any ideas would be helpful.

TIA,
Barry Gilbert

 

[RBischoff]

Hello (e-mail address removed),
Here is an interesting article about running asmx without IIS. Look here under
Service Station: Run ASMX Without IIS
Aaron Skonnard

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/12/default.aspx


You can still use the framework in the client to deal with webservices, no matter what the server endpoint is implemented in (i.e. Java).
For example, is your server webservice was java, then your winforms c# app can still use the .net framework to communicate with the java webservice.

Best of luck!
RBischoff , your C# ally

 

[Barry Gilbert]

Thanks for your reply. I'll check out the article.

I'll need to spend some time understanding Smart Clients and how/if to
implement the server functionality in a java-based web service.

Barry