How to call an EXE or VBS file from the menu control?

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ASP.NET menu control is a handy design for multi-view and multi-page navigation. In my application, I need to call some legacy applications (in the form of EXE or VBScript file) when a menu item is selected. How do I do that?

Posted 27-May-11 5:18am

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Ali Al Omairi(Abu AlHassan) 27-May-11 18:23pm

i think you set the url property to the name of the file.

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Wonde Tadesse · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-28T11:21:00

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You can put a link that will navigate to your file. i.e

HTML

<a href="~/myexe.exe">My exe</a>

You done.

But, to execute some method from your web application, you should expose the method as Web Services[^] or WCF[^]. After you do these, it will be quite easy to consume the exe method.

Cheers.

Posted 28-May-11 11:21am

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Jun Du 31-May-11 10:47am

My app is actually a VB script file. Your suggestion works, but the browser shows a couple of security warnings. I can live with that at the moment. Since it's an intranet app, we should be able to remove the warnings without japardizing the security. How do I do this programmably?

Wonde Tadesse 31-May-11 19:23pm

I don't think you can achieve by coding. It's a browser setting issue and it depends on what browser the site is being accessed. So for IE you can use the following link to disable the security warning. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Internet-Explorer-Information-bar-frequently-asked-questions#4.

Note: If your are using IE9, I don't think you can disable this setting.