Mobile app to work along side a winform C#

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Hello.

Ive made a Windows Form Application and all is working fine on that.
but what im trying to do is make it so people have a mobile App(that ill end up making) that will allow them to be away from the PC and push a button on the mobile app that will send someform or command to the Winform Application and get it to trigger a button click event.

E.G

Winform is open on PC has a button on it that will play or pause music.

I go get a drink downstairs and i want to pause the music from the mobile app.

Push the button on the mobile app and it connects to the Winform application and triggers the event for the pause button.

If anyone can help me out with this or put me in the right direction to do somthing like this that would be great. thank you.

Ben

What I have tried:

Well i have looked around and messed about with mobile apps trying to do what im after but cant seem to do it.

Posted 16-Mar-16 14:58pm

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Updated 23-Mar-16 22:23pm

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Rishikesh_Singh 16-Mar-16 22:28pm

I'm assuming the winform app is accessing internet (making some webservice call) from your question. When user with the same account pushes the button from his windows phone
you listen to that event on the server and end the webservice call.

Member 10914462 17-Mar-16 13:17pm

well kinda yeah. like ive looked in to it but i dont know a huge amount about so thats why im seeing if someone can help me out with like a demo project or somthing like that

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Matt Comb · Answer 1 · 2016-03-23T22:23:00

Solution 1

I would stongly suggest you implement a REST interface using ASP.MVC and have both the client and the mobile application communicate state using the interface.

e.g. implement

Messages/POST - to persist the message to the db
Messages/GET - to retrieve messages sent to your destination

Posted 23-Mar-16 22:23pm

Matt Comb