Start VB program from an HTML link

Hi everybody,
I am a novice as far as VB goes, so I would really appreciate your help. I just wrote a series of small programs in VB, and I would like to put them on the Internet. They should be activated with a click on a link or a button within a web page, and they should run on the server and display results in another web page.

I read somewhere that VBScript is good for these sorts of things. In this case I had to rule out VBS since I use some stuff that VBS does not support.

Help me out here if you can.
Thanks in Advance,
Sam

Try converting them to ActiveX. Then you can view them in a webpage with (I think?) an EMBED or something else. Use:

<A HREF="pagethatholdsactivexobject.htm" TARGET="Frame_That_Does_Not_Exist">My Program</A>

Sastraxi,
thanks for the suggestion. I don't understand what you mean exactly?

I have a program in visual basic. I thought about creating an executable out of it and storing it on the server. When a user visits the web page that lays on that server, he should be able to click on a link or a button and activate my executable. When the executable is activated it should do a bunch of tasks on the server and generate a dynamic web page and display it in the visitor's web browser.

Now, the program I already have does all the tasks and displays them in a browser, I just don't know how to activate this program from a link, make it run on the server, and display the results to the visitor. If ActiveX is the way to go, can you please elaborate a bit about how to convert them to ActiveX and about EMBED?

Actually I'm not sure meself...
But when you do you could also access them as:

Set MyObj = Server.CreateObject("MyLib.MyProg")

in an ASP page of course

Okay then all you need to do then is do <A HREF="myprog.exe>CLiCK mE</A>, this will d/l it to the user and then they can run it themselves

Sastraxi,
But I don't want a visitor to have to download the executable and run it himself/herself :). The executable uses applications that a visitor probably doesn't have on his computer, so it must run on the server.

It is very important that the executable runs on the server. And it is triggered by a button or a link click in a web page. Any ideas?

The only way i know off is dont make an exe but create an ActiveX.
And use this in you asp page

Code:

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Set MyObj = Server.CreateObject("MyLib.MyProg")

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So when the user clicks on your link. Redirect him to your asp page.
And your AxtiveX can be activated. This is a way i know off how to run programs on your server.
But you have to register your ActiveX on your server.

IIS does not have permissions to run a program outside of it's own address space. This means that only in-process dll programs can be executed on the server from IIS. No .exe's.

on the server.

Thanks Cander,
How do I register an Active X on a Server? Is there anything else I need to worry about; perhaps some sort of include statements in the .asp page?

I just read somewhere that this Active X approach will only work with IE. Is that true?

Yes. ActiveX is a slightly older technology made by the iron fists of Microsoft to combat Java applets.

Is there any way to do this in a Netscape compatible way?

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Is there any way to do this in a Netscape compatible way?

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Yeah, do it all on the server. Convert your VB programs into either
1. COM DLLs
2. ASP pages written in VBScript.

As long as you don't need to use client-side VBscript or client-side ActiveX Controls, you'll be fine.