>Hello all,
>I've finally to move from VFP to VB.NET.
>I want to know if i have to concentrate on developing all my application as web based.
>My reason is, Web based Applications are gaining a lot of popularity and the benefits are obvious, but can and should all applications be better of as Web applications.
>IOTW When should my applications be Web based. What are the considerations, now and the future.
>TIA

Hi Sammy,

My two cents... and of course depending on the specs of your application.

You're right, web apps are gaining a lot of popularity, however the popular choice is not always the right choice. Many people like to write web apps to ease deployment. If that's the main reason for writing a web app then I suggest you look into Microsoft's ClickOnce technology.

Web apps, for the most part, centralize processing on a server and therefore the user's experience is subject to the conditions of that server. Availability, load, etc. So you need to take into consideration how many users are going to be accessing the application, which host you're going to use, etc., etc....

The beauty of .Net is that you can write and WinForms application and, if you design and write the application using business objects, you can easily create web interface that access the same business objects. This will greatly reduce the time and effort to build, and more importantly maintain, the application.

You can look at the MereMortals.Net framework created by OakLeaf (www.oakleafsd.com), it helps to create these applications with two faces.

Aloha,

James