Trying To Submit Data To A Web Server Using VB.Net
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I wonder if any of you can help me. I have a VB.Net application that is installed and run on any Windows platform. This application has a bunch of questions that the user fills out. What I can’t figure out how to do is to submit those answers (transparent to the user) to my web server that will return a successful flag if it actually accepts the data and successfully writes it to the database. I can successfully send all the information in a long web address string that the website interoperates, but I don’t want the user to see all that. I sort of want to do something like Symantec AntiVirus does when checking for updates…it sends and receives information all in the background while you simply see an animated form. Any help or examples would be greatly appreciated.
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I wonder if any of you can help me. I have a VB.Net application that is installed and run on any Windows platform. This application has a bunch of questions that the user fills out. What I can’t figure out how to do is to submit those answers (transparent to the user) to my web server that will return a successful flag if it actually accepts the data and successfully writes it to the database. I can successfully send all the information in a long web address string that the website interoperates, but I don’t want the user to see all that. I sort of want to do something like Symantec AntiVirus does when checking for updates…it sends and receives information all in the background while you simply see an animated form. Any help or examples would be greatly appreciated.
How about creating a web service, publishing the service on your web server, then invoking the web service from within your windows forms application? It's much simpler than creating and posting a http request and parsing the http response. What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable . . . and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? -- Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii.