WinForms client for a web app

[leodippolito]

Sirs,

I have a web application running and I am planning to write a WinForms
client, so that customers can choose to access the application with a
browser or the WinForms client.

My ASP.NET application has some layers:

Presentation (aspx + codebehind)
Business Logic Layer
Metadata (my own types - classes and structs)
Data Access

I am trying to decide if Remoting is the way to go... Or maybe
webservices? Or maybe another thing?

Any advice will be appreciated...

Leo D'Ippolito

 

[S.M. Altaf [MVP]]

Hi,

My suggestion is to use Web Services and place them on a central server accessible by all your users. You can have all your business logic in there along with your data access procedures, and change it anytime you want without bugging the users too many times. Additionally, it opens them up to both options: winforms or webforms, whatever they feel like.

-Altaf [MVP]




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Sirs,

I have a web application running and I am planning to write a WinForms
client, so that customers can choose to access the application with a
browser or the WinForms client.

My ASP.NET application has some layers:

Presentation (aspx + codebehind)
Business Logic Layer
Metadata (my own types - classes and structs)
Data Access

I am trying to decide if Remoting is the way to go... Or maybe
webservices? Or maybe another thing?

Any advice will be appreciated...

Leo D'Ippolito