Questions tagged [winforms-to-web]

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How to set user agent in GeckoFX?

After using the webbrowser control for some time, I decided to give gecko a try, because of the webbrowser's problems that I've experienced, low speed and degrading performance. I downloaded the latest version of geckofx (16.0.0.2) and…
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Communication between a desktop application and a web application

I have a desktop and web application connected to same database. Which is the most preferred method to make them communicate with each other?
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How to Open Default Windows Browser and Send HTTP Post Data to The Opened Url in browser in WinForm?

I Want to my Application Open URL in default browser in WinForm Application. And Then Send Some data as HTTP POST method not as query string. now the problem is if i want to open URL in default browser i used this…
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VB.NET - Easiest way to Export / Convert WinForm App to Web ASP.NET App

Background: I have a winform application written in VB.NET that uses a WebService to send out different invitations to users based on the marketing company they select to take different interviews. The winform app is pulling string values from a…
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how to create a win app which can interact with a website?

Hi I'm trying to write a windows application which can read HTML content of a specific website and fill some data in some input fields and submit the page. what I did untill now was reading page content from a WebBrowser object, navigated to the…
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Call Azure AD protected WebApi from Excel VSTO WorkBook

I am attempting to call an Azure AD protected WebApi from Excel VSTO WorkBook. This is the same webApi we use for our SPA applications but now want to also consume this same Api directly from Excel. I have searched for quite a while and cannot find…
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Guidance on migrating a .NET windows forms application to a web application

Are there any good books or websites on this subject covering subjects like: different migration scenario's (big bang, module for module, function for function) pros and cons do's en dont's tooling handling customer expectations We have a rather…
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Trying to connect a winforms app with a web Portal, where a login is required

How can I have the user connect from winform to the web portal using the login and password? I tried with System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Url, user, password, domain) but it doesn't work. I thought to use WebClient but I don’t need either upload…
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Provide AntiForgery Token with System.Net.Http.HttpClient and MVC

I have a WPF (could be any winform I guess) app that tries to login to a standard MVC 5 website using a HttpClient. Normally I can login successfully with a call to PostAsync() where I provide the UserName and Password params in a…
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Tips for developing on WinForms thinking on a future Web developing

We are developing/mantaining an enterprise application which for historical reasons and development speedup it was targered for WinForms. Now we are thinking that sooner or later (more sooner than later) that application will need to be Web based.…
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Call a MVC action method from Winform application with post data and open the response in an external browser

I need to open an url in an external browser from my Winforms application by calling a MVC action method and post data of type json. I could do it using the WebBrowser component but my requirement is to open it in a browser.
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While developing metadata exchange service in WCF

image1 image2 "Add service reference" is unable to find any service running, which is actually running with the solution "started without debugging". Also running with another instance of visual studio simultaneously not working.
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Web browser Control under Citrix environment

I have a web application which is also displayed in a web browser control of a winforms application. MS Word and Excel are installed on Citrix server. But I want to open a word/excel document on client's machine instead of Citrix server when I click…
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Load ASPX page to a windows webbrowser control

Hi I have a Windows form the import data to SQL, also I have an aspx page which is used for previewing data which i need to load to to the windows form using WebBrowser Control, my problem is that How do I pass a collection (List) to the aspx page…
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Sharing code modules between WinForms and ASP applications?

My ASP application in VB has many modules that I'd like to share with a WinForms VB application. But the VB.ASP modules have includes that won't be necessary, useful, or possible to include in the WinForms app. Can I use compiler directives to…
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