Why create a file? How 'bout a webservice that accepts the customer number and serial number and returns the appropriate information in xml format?


>I'm trying to decide on the best way to obtain user information from a table that will reside on our in-house (or hosted) web server?
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>Here is the basic outline of what I want to do...
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>1. The user installs our software and then runs a registration wizard.
>2. In the registration wizard, they will enter a customer number and serial number and then I would like our desktop application to retrieve their registration information (name, address, phone numbers, etc) from a table that resides on our website.
>3. The contact information will then appear in our registration wizard for them to change and re-submit to us via email. We will review the information and make the changes to our user database.
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>How can I issue a request to our web server to create a file containing just their user info that I can then download via ftp and read into my app. I can handle #1, downloading of the file, and #3, but I don't know how to issue a command to the server to create the user info table.
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>Any ideas on the best approach.