How can I get a program on a client machine to run from an ASP.NET page?

Question

I have an app that I\'m trying to run on an intranet. On my machine it worked great (famous last words) but when I put it up to the server, it didn\'t work. As soon as I saw

Answer 1

If you put your site in the IE Trusted or Intranet zone, the following Javascript will work just fine. I use this one internally to link our PC support DB search to our remote screen control software:

My understanding is that uploading the results of your work in the local program to the web server can be accomplished using the HttpWebRequest class, as shown in this article:

http://forums.asp.net/p/1482778/3464854.aspx

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Edit: This is how I call the above function. Basically I'm just rendering a plain element with the onclick attribute. There's probably a cleaner way to do it, but it works:

Markup:

    
        <%# RenderDameWareLinks(Eval("ResourceName"))%>
    

Code:

Protected Function RenderDameWareLinks(ByVal strHostname As String) As String
    Dim strFullLink As String = String.Empty
    Dim strViewLink As String = String.Empty
    strFullLink = ""
    strFullLink &= ""
    strFullLink &= "
"
    strViewLink = ""
    strViewLink &= ""
    strViewLink &= ""
    Return strFullLink & strViewLink
End Function