Looking For Code Sample and Request Feedback

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Hi,

I am looking for a code sample that communicates from a client to a remote Windows Service on another computer over the internet, that is the Windows Service performing instructions the client sends. That being said, I also would like feedback on this.

Currently in my Windows applications, I do a lot of communication with my servers at work from customers to place orders, check stock status etc. The production server is a AIX system and I do screen scraping. The commands are coming from the client and going straight to this server. In addition, the client does the office automation and the actual communication of the commands to this server.

I am thinking in the next release to do this.

Have a Windows Service located on the Windows 2003 Server that all the client does is communicates its intentions to the Service. The service will actually do the communicating of the commands to the AIX Server (it is high overhead on the client). Also, I was thinking that the reporting that is being done could be done by the Windows Service (office automation) and then the documents sent to the client via email or FTP. Then I am freed from Worries about them not having the right office version and those considerations. I could even actually use the XML features within Office 2003 which I have not been able to do up to this point since most of my business customers have refused to upgrade (when I dropped Office 97 support you would have thought I was the devil.) The role of the client would primarily be to maintain the communication with the server but all the work would be done there for each user running the program.

What do you all think of these concepts?

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