What is meant by 'converting window application to web based application suing WCF' (HOW CAN THIS BE ACHIEVED)

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What is meant by 'converting window application to web based application using WCF'(HOW CAN THIS BE ACHIEVED)

Posted 7-Nov-10 16:53pm

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Abhinav S · Answer 1 · 2010-11-07T17:04:00

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A windows based application might be accessing a database directly (2-tier architecture).

To make it web based (using ASP.Net or Silverlight) so that this application runs in a browser, a web service can be used. This web service can fetch the data from the database and then this will be displayed in the client (browser) part of the application.

Posted 7-Nov-10 17:04pm

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coderaug 7-Nov-10 23:50pm

Abhinav,but in this case GUI needs to be changed right??
Database will be reused, WCF will be used to interact with database, and the client(GUI)??

Abhinav S 8-Nov-10 7:11am

If you are converting from a windows to a web application - the GUI will definitely change.
You will most probably use a web technology (Asp.Net) rather than a winforms.