Send data from vb.Net App to ASP.Net page...

[lidds]

What I want to do is send data from my VB.Net application to a ASP.Net webpage so that this data send can we written to a database which would be handled by the ASP.Net. The reason why I want to do this is because one of my clients has asked for statistics on how many people are using my software, what projects, machine name etc etc. So what I propose to do is when a user logs into my application send this data to an ASP.Net webpage that is located on a central server and this ASP.Net page will then take the data sent an write it to a database.

I have created the ASP.Net webpage called PostUsage.aspx and tested that this can be displayed, which is can. However I have a couple of questions that I need some help with:

1. How can I send data from my VB.Net application to the PostUsage.aspx page?
2. How can I then get/extract the data send to the PostUsage.aspx page, this is now at the PostUsage.aspx page side of things?

Any help, links, examples would really be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Simon

[jmcilhinney]

The first thing to do is build the web page. It should display a form that you can enter data into and then submit a post back to the server. Once that's working, you can then use the HttpWebRequest class to perform the equivalent post from your VB application code.

[Grimfort]

I think the OP wants the app to contact the website in the first instance. It also suggests that a website itself is not actually needed, just an online system. I would suggest creating a webservice (it can have a website attached to it), that your applications can post information to.