Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!taurus!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.esat.net!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!transit.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail From: "Peter Kaptein" Newsgroups: alt.comp.lang.visualbasic,comp.lang.visual.basic,fj.comp.lang.visualbasic,free.it.visual-basic,microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.vb,microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb,microsoft.public.dotnet.vb.general,microsoft.public.vb,microsoft.public.vb.6.w References: <4047b129$0$574$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> Subject: Better formulated Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 23:03:49 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <404b9c9e$0$563$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Date: 07 Mar 2004 23:05:19 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.109.235.88 X-Trace: 1078697119 news.xs4all.nl 563 [::ffff:194.109.235.88]:1210 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.comp.lang.visualbasic:51 == What I want to do: 1) Use HTML instead of the VB forms to present my User Interfaces inside applications that can run on "any" desktop running Win98 and higher. 2) Run the User Interface inside a WebBrowser == What is the best approach? Does anyone have any experience on how to do this? (Even parse .ASP or .ASPX scripts on clients?) == Have I built apps with HTML frontends before? Yes. . I build Web-applications running on IIS to: 1) Maintain the content of databases 2) Zip and unzip large files on remote machines 3) Maintain files on remote machines 4) Publish database-content to static files. Business logic is stored in DLLs and called via server.CreateObject("theDLLreferrerName.ClassName") == Why on desktops? HTML and DHTML offer me much more flexibility in building self-adapting user interfaces. A new version of a desktop app. to be developed for one of my clients will run based on 3-tier architecture using HTML for the presentation layer, VB for the Business Layer and MS Access for the Database Layer.