Hello all, I am writing an app in C# and would like to have a Web UI for it,
just as is done with the Visual Studio Start Page.  How is this done for a
stand alone app?  My plan is to have a dynamic start page.  Clicking certain
links would bring up items such as other local pages (dynamic and static),
windows forms, dialog boxes, internet sites, etc.

Thanks for any info.

John

Hi Brock.  You can just embed a web browser control in your apps form.  I
believe it is the Explorer component under the component toolbox.

Hope that helps.

Justin

That I understand, what I'm not clear on is how do use that to interact with
my app?  How would clicking a link on the web page launch a form in my app
or call some function?  How do I get my dynamic page to the web control?
Write it to a temp file then send that file path to the web control?  Or can
html be streamed to the control?

I don't know how to do what you guys are talking about.  
But I would use ASP.NET.  At first I was all confused
about ASP.NET and knew absolutely nothing about ASP and
ASP.NET, but it's just like a regular form, but it has a
web interface so it's accessible through any browser and
it does all the XML, session(ing), and all that other junk
behind the scenes.  I didn't know and have to worry about
it.  It does it all.  So just use it as if you would a
regular windows form, but it's in aspx which you can then
upload to a webserver or could be running on your machine
which should be running if you installed VS.NET on that
machine.  If i remember correctly it makes you install IIS.

RAyRAy

that to interact with
web control?  Or can
to have a Web UI for
How is this done for

Hi Brock,

    You could monitor the BeforeNavigate2 event. Supposing you came up with
a special url format for links pointing to forms within your application
(e.g. starts with "form:"), you could parse the destination url in the
BeforeNavigate2 event. If the url is a link-to-form url (starts with
"form:"), then cancel the navigation (Cancel event parameter) and open the
form.

    I don't see that html can be easily streamed to a web control except
with a web server, so your first suggestion seems the most reasonable. If
you were very ambitious, you could create your own protocol handler to
process urls of your very own protocol. This is how the MS help system
works: Notice that the help urls all start with "ms-help:". Also notice that
the url is usable inside _and_ outside the help viewer.

Regards,
Dan