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vivekjain
Level: Professor
Registered: 11-08-2003
Posts: 71
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Distributed Applications
Hi,
I am planning on developing a distributed application in VB. The application is for a company which has branches all over the country. There is a centralized database. How can I access this database from any part of the country. I can use ASP for this, but I want to do this in VB. Kindly help me with this. Thank You.
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11-08-2003 at 06:01 PM |
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vbgen
Level: Moderator
Registered: 10-10-2002
Posts: 876
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Re: Distributed Applications
you can use vb to do this, but how will you connect to this database?
if it's through the internet, then the database should be located in a server computer, which you can access through a website, or perhaps by accessing its ip address... you'll probably need a server and client application
if the connection will be through a modem dialing up to the server... (not necessarily through the internet), then you will also need a server and client application...
if you will just access a website(of course, secured) then you'll need a website and a client program...
WHY a server side application and a client application?
so that the server can handle the requests made by the client application(the one you will use from anywhere in the country)...
it would be chaos if there were no data handling on the computer that holds the database... there could be numerous problems if no handling will take place.
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12-08-2003 at 05:10 PM |
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JLRodgers
Level: Moderator
Registered: 04-04-2002
Posts: 1616
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Re: Distributed Applications
Out of curiosity... I take it the company at the different locations aren't connected (ie: the lans at each company aren't connected 24/7)? If they were, servers can be accessed the same way if it's on your network, or in another country (given proper permissions).
Meaning that it'd be as easy to connect to it in another state as one in the next room; although design would depend on the security and what the company itself would allow.
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12-08-2003 at 06:58 PM |
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