Getting a VB form on the internet?

**Lol Owen** · Apr 18th, 2005, 03:28 PM

Hi all, just a short question to determine what software to use for this. I've finally finished my project, a VB6 front end tied to a Access database. Showed it my course leader who is much impressed. In September I move on to my next course and for the project for that he wants me to take my stand alone .exe and put it on the college intranet so it can be accessed by anyone through a web browser. How do i do this? Is there a technology to pull the form into a browser or do I have to recreate my front end in say Dreamweaver and start connecting to the database that way? if someone can point me in the right direction I can start researching the stuff now and over the summer ready for September!

Cheers, Lol

**si_the_geek** · Apr 18th, 2005, 03:45 PM

You can't just put a VB program on the internet I'm afraid - the closest you can do is put up an installation package, which will then install the program from the client PC.

I haven't used (or seen) Dreamweaver, but I presume that like VB it would still require some form of installation, presumably just a one-off install of a plug-in (like Flash uses).

What you can do is use server-side script such as ASP (Active Server Pages), which uses code very similar to VB6 to generate the html page that is sent back to the client. As it is html being sent, nothing at all needs to be installed. (one alternative to ASP is php, which this site uses)

**dglienna** · Apr 18th, 2005, 03:46 PM

Just rewrite your app as an ACTIVEX control, and you can load that into a browser.

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**RobDog888** · Apr 18th, 2005, 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by dglienna

Just recompile your app as an ACTIVEX control, and you can load that into a browser.

You can not "just recompile your project as an activex control". You need to re-write it either
as an ActiveX Document Project or write some ASP web pages that replicate your forms design and logic and
[optionally] integrate some custom controls that you will have to make as ActiveX controls or just use all ASP.

Also remember that ActiveX controls are widely supported on MS' IE browser. Other third party browsers may not support them.

**Lol Owen** · Apr 18th, 2005, 04:29 PM

Dreamweaver is a web authoring package. Can someone point me in the direction of suitable books/resources for creating ActiveX Document projects? My VB front end uses ADO to create the connection, is this transferrable to ASP?

Lol

**Wokawidget** · Apr 18th, 2005, 04:47 PM

If you have .NET at your college I would take a look at making it in ASP.NET
You will have to learn a little more, but it's fun and a challenge, and it's exactly what you want.

Can can embed an ActiveX control into a web page, but it's not as easy as "Compile your project as an ActiveX control"...it's way more complex than that....you would have to do sokme serious design work to your app.

Woof

**dglienna** · Apr 18th, 2005, 05:30 PM

Is it the same with 'Net? Or can you run the same code on a webpage?

**Wokawidget** · Apr 18th, 2005, 05:56 PM

No you can't...Well you can create controls to run in a web page. ASP.NET coding is WAY WAY WAY different from Win32 VB.NET coding

Woka

**Lol Owen** · Apr 20th, 2005, 04:13 PM

Unfortuinately we don't have ASP.Net at college, just plain old ASP so i'll get some ASP books and get playing over the summer.

Thanks a lot, Lol

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