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AngryHacker
AngryHacker

Reputation: 61646

How do I kick off an executable from a web page?

We have rewritten a WinForms app A as a web app. The old WinForms app had integration with WinForms app B, in that you could fire it up from app A with a set of variables.

Users are now demanding the same functionality from a rewritten web app. My first thought was for WinForms app B to create my own URL protocol (foo://...), but it seems that to do that you have to create keys in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT - which is an activity done by an admin user. However, the users are basically limited users and WinForms app B is actually a ClickOnce app.

What are my options?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 178

Answers (1)

Oded
Oded

Reputation: 499272

Since App A is now in the cloud and the user interacts with it via the browser, it is sandboxed and many of the things that a desktop app can do are not available to it anymore.

This is a security feature and outside of writing a browser plugin that will bridge between App a on the browser and App b, there isn't much you can do.

Upvotes: 2

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