Re: Possibly strange question regarding VB.NET and CGI

From: Tom Shelton (tom_at_YOUKNOWTHEDRILLmtogden.com)
Date: 12/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 02:21:09 -0800

On 2004-12-18, Nak <a@a.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Im currently developing a web site using PHP. Unfortunately due to
> limitations with my web server I am having to use XML as a method of data
> persitance, this doesn't really bother me as I prefer XML anyway. I'm not
> using ASP.NET for design reasons at the moment.
>
> At the moment I am fighting a design battle in relation to file writing
> and various locking methods which all appear to be very unreliable. That's
> why I am looking into CGI. Now apparently any application can use CGI as
> long as it implements a specific interface (though what this is I haven't
> quite worked out yet). So I'm just wondering if it is at all possible to
> use VB.NET with CGI?
>
> Writing some code to perform XML work with VB.NET will be a piece of
> cake obviously and probably the main reason why I should be using ASP.NET
> anyway, but for now I am looking into alternatives. Has anyone known this
> to be done? I've seen examples of it one in legacy VB via stdio stream
> handling, so it must be possible with VB.NET right?
>
> Anyway, any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks loads
> in advance!
>
> Nick.
>
>

Yes it's possible. Basically, you would just create your CGI
application as a Console app. I won't go into the details of CGI here -
but essentially, all a language has to be able to do is read environment
variables and handle stdin and stdout. So, your good here :) The place
where you may have difficulty (at least I did when I played with this
year or so ago) is getting the permissions right so that your
application will run. 

-- 
Tom Shelton [MVP]

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