What would be the best solution
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I have a web site that displays a table of records and each line has a microphone icon on it. When the user clicks on that mic icon another web page is opened and it tells the user they may create a dictation. (We have special dictation mics running from a vb.net app that runs from the user's local machine.) We also have an image display program running at the same time and it also runs from the user's machine. The web app knows what the StudyID is but the vb.net apps don't and I need to be able to pass that StudyID to the users machine so it can be used by the image display program to find the correct images to display while the user is dictating. I wrote a "faux" activeX (dll) in vb.net that could be placed on the web site and run when the 2nd page is displayed and the studyID could be passed to it and then it would use the study ID and the Process class to cause the image display program to display the correct images, but that would require each user's machine to have the correct security manually setup in .Net Configuration and we don't want to have to do that. So I am trying to determine if there is a solution to this situation that would require very little security setup on the users machine. So basically I need a program (probably an ActiveX) that can be run from my web page but then it would start a program on my user's system using data from the web page. Does this make sense? Could this be done and if so, would it be as easily done as I think it might be. I'm looking for working suggestions, so any opinions are welcomed.