Hi Lloyd,
..Net is all build around the .Net frameworks 1.0 and 1.1 you can see that
from 2 different views.
You can see it as a very big runtimer or as a kind of an Operating system
extention (or both)
The Net is a total approach, is based on managed code. You can use the
program languages C++ withouth it and also C# gives some posibilites but in
C# it is called unsafe code. I thinkl there is no better way they could give
to tell how they do think about it.
But all what I am writing goes in the wrong direction for your solution and
therefore I give you another solution.
Ask your question partialy in the following three large dotnet newsgroups.
vb.net, aspnet and csharp.
In
microsoft.public.dotnet.general.vb
That is the newsgroup about dotnet which has in my opinion with the most
more general approach for problems as you have.(Do not mix VB.net up with
classic VB the differences between C# and VB.net are almost nothing).
In that newsgroup you can put your question when you have to rearrange it a
little bit.
The question is: is there a Microsoft product or path that will enable us
to re-use those business
classes for a web-based solution without much rework or engineering?
Remember, if you're
following this thread, we still need to be able to construct, from the same
code base, the
standalone app that runs on the legacy hardware and OSes in the schools --
our prime
directive, if you will. It is not the intent to run the web server on the
aforementioned
legacy hardware/OS; we just would like to use the same code base since the
standalone
(legacy platform) and the server (state-of-the-art platform) essentially do
the same thing,
business-wise. Otherwise, we're going to do a separate code base in
something like
Java to run on a JSP server like Tomcat since that's the only other
technology we know
about here.
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Ask in the Asp.net newsgroup your questions about the web.
Do not expect to much as answers from that newsgroup, you never know, but
there are a lot of questions in that newsgroup which have nothing to do
with dotnet, so the change that you get the attention is much lower
Ask it also in the newsgroup
microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp and place there this question. Also
a very good newsgroup, but in my opinion more often in the details from the
system than the general overview you see often in VB.net.
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Currently the application is being made using Visual C++ v6 to create a
standalone executable
that runs on very low-end hardware in schools (they can't afford new stuff
every year).
We are going to be re-engineering (refactoring, if you will) it to add
requested functionality.
During the development, we're going to expend some non-trivial effort to do
proper O-O
analysis and design so that we can more easily maintain it and add more
functionality.
However, one of the requests we have gotten is to make a web-based app for
students and
parents to access from home. We will be doing proper design to separate the
business
objects from the presentation (MVC-type or a variant) so that we can re-use
the business
objects for a web-based application.
Do not cross post it, because you get than discussion which are for you not
very interesting.
)
(The strange thing is that a lot of regulars are active in all those
newsgroups, but they all have so to say there home newsgroup).
I hope this helps a little bit to get your solution.
Cor
