Re: Single Sourcing GUI - native and HTML
If you don't mind using .NET you may want to try doing something with a tool
kit like Telerik (http://www.telerik.com) where they have the same
components for C#/.NET WinForms or other GUI and ASP.NET (HTML)
applications. You may not be able to share all the code, but you could
certainly share a lot of the server side C# code.
Tom
"Louis" <spamtrap@dontbother.com> wrote in message
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I am wondering what tools are there to create a single source application
that can be compiled for native Windows GUI and also HTML?
Specifically, we have a large 10+ year old MFC application where for some
parts (utilities) we want to make it Web enabled. So ideally, a DIALOG
resource file converted to HTML would be something I think to start with.
But I not all sure of the current state of current technology and the
direction. One of the reasons we got Visual Studio 2005 a few years back
was based on the recommending from a colleague who felt it would be
something to do what we wanted. But I haven't gone all the way with
VS2005 to port our software yet to it not knowing all that needs to be
done, especially with the constant flux in the Dynamic HTML area.
So essentially I would like to get the skinny on to best use these tools
today to basically "single source" our applications.
Any comments or insights would be appreciated.
Thanks
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