Re: Doing The Impossible
From: William Stacey [MVP] (staceywREMOVE_at_mvps.org)
Date: 04/20/04
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:52:01 -0400
ug. Doing cut and paste is a bit dirty. Sounds like a little reverse
screen scraping which is not any better. This screams for web services or
remoting. Note they don't need to re-tool the web app per se, they just
need to add a web services interface so your client app can talk to it.
This is what MS is spending billions on trying to get people to do. Not
sure why you would even need to sell this to them, they should want to do
this to allow flexible input from other client platforms. XML web services?
They never heard of it? Another hack would be if they allowed a file to be
passed (maybe xml format) and use ftp or other. They then read this dir on
a scheduled basis. You could do same thing with email. Talk to management
with some users. Does not sound like they care about the user's.
-- William Stacey, MVP "Greg Smith" <gjs@umn.edu> wrote in message news:exoueOtJEHA.752@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... > Hello, I have been given a programming task that falls into the "impossible" > category with my current skill set. I am hoping somebody out there knows > how to do this and can save my b-t. > > > > I work for a large University. I wrote a Windows-based database application > for my department that is used in purchasing. The University has just > released Web-base application that does the same thing using a sub set of > the data that my application uses. The people in my department hate it and > want to keep using my application, however, the University application MUST > BE USED to order. What my users have asked for is a way of doing a mass > copy and paste of the needed information from my Windows app to the Web app. > I have talked to the University's programmers and there is absolutely no > chance of them changing their application to facilitate this. It all has to > be done from the Windows app. > > > > Obviously information could be cut and pasted a field at a time, but they > would like a massive copy and then go to the web form and paste, paste, > paste. > > > > Is there a way to do this from the clip board? From a text file? Can I > assign a hot-key programmatically to paste things off the clipboard or text > file? > > > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > >
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