Thomas
Wed Jan 14 08:09:00 CST 2004
I was afraid of that. I guess that will be my first
project when they switch us to vb.net sometime later this
year. Many thanks for the info!
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>>We wrote a vb6 app that queries a mainframe and displays
>>the results using MS Charts and Hierarchial Flexgrid.
>>works fine, everybody is happy.....now they want it
>>available over the net. We use FP2000 to build our
>>webpages. Can I ..how do I run the application from FP.
>>Hints will work (aim me in the right direction). Code
>>examples are even better.
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>These are usually very tough conversions.
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>First off, if you develop the app using ASP, the
>programming language is VBScript, which is a much
>different beast than VB6. If you choose ASP.NET,
>the programming language is C# or VB.NET, and even
>VB.NET is significantly different from VB6.
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>Second, you would have to draw your chart by writing an
>ASP or ASP.NET page that emits a GIF or JPEG image. This
>is significantly different than using MS Charts and
>Hierarchical Flexgrid.
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>The easiest conversion would be to past your existing
code
>into a VB6 ActiveX project, compile and register the
>ActiveX control, and add it to a Web page. But at that
>point, you have a local app running in a browser window,
>and not a true Web app. And it would only work in Windows
>versions of IE.
>
>Jim Buyens
>Microsoft FrontPage MVP
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