I wonder whether ASP.net can use a dll that resides in the client side? I will look into this then, thanks again. :)

Well, you see.. In my country (I don't know if it is implemented in your country), we got a smart card as National ID Card; we can access basic personal information in it; so I'm building an application that automatically inputs some of the public data inside the ID Card to the application (like Name and date of birth and so on). The reason why I need to pass the data to the ASP page is that I'm not the original developer; I'm "the new guy" that continues development of an already existing web app where the data input is manual.. and try to make it into automatic input. Is this not possible at all? :doh:

I'm stumped. Tried asking google and look around here in TCP, but I still haven't got any answer. I'm totally new in ASP.net programming, but have some experience in VB.net. Here's my situation: I have a project that is required to access a smart card and read data inside it, then pass the data into the server for further processing. I presume ASP.net does not have smartcard abilities right? Therefore, I created a dll (in VB.net) to handle smartcard processing and pass out the resulting values to the main program. When I tried it in localhost, the thing works; but when I tried to run the program from another PC, it turns out that the dll looks for the smartcard reader at the server, where the dll resides. Now I'm trying a different method since that one fails miserably. I'm writing a VB.net program that is going to pass the acquired data from the smartcard at client PC to an ASP.net/ASP page. But I cannot find any article on the net about passing data from VB.net to ASP.net. Since the dll available is only for local .net, therefore accessing it through ASP.net results in weird performance where the accessed SC reader is the one at the server. Any idea guys? Or is there a better solution?