VB Webservice for WinCE project

[gengel]

Good day, Not sure if should rather be under ASP or embedded, but I am doing the development in vb.net. I can't quite figure out how to proceed with this problem. just need someone to point me in the right direction. I have a VB (VB 2008 Express) windows form app that connects up to a SQL express DB . Everything works fine there. I created a datalayer class and a business layer class. The datalayer handels all database connection functions and the business layer handles search functions that returns datarows and several other lookup and update functions. Now I want a Windows CE symbol bar code scanner (vb.net 2003 compact framework 1. Framework 2 to big for device memory) to connect up to the vb app. Eg.: I have a function in the business layer class that checks for duplicate numbers scanned. I want the CD device to scan the number and then feed it to the function in the business layer. But I think it might not work if I create the business object on the device. I need business class to reside on the server. ASP? Web service? As I say not sure where to go from here. It also seems that VB .net Express cannot create web services and ASP websites. you need Visual Web developer 2008 express edition for that. Not sure how to link the two. I would appreciate any advice. Thanks

[_Damian S_]

Yes, you need to create a Webservice and deploy it to an IIS webserver. The webserver needs to be able to see your SQL database. The webservice can use the same business and datalayer classes if you wish.

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