Converting D5 reports to ASP.NET

[Bob Jones]

I've got a D5 app with hundreds of reports that I'd like to convert to an ASP.NET app without rewriting all those reports. Can I call a Win32 EXE that will do some calculations and generate an HTML or PDF file of the report output that I could then display with the ASP.NET app? Any suggestions on how to pass the parameters to the win32 program (command line?, INI file, XML file?) and how to know when the output html/pdf file is ready for me to use in ASP.NET?

[Marc Rohloff [TeamB]]

You don't mention what your reports are written with. There may be
other solutions.

You could write a multi threaded COM server in Delphi and call that
from your ASP.NET application fairly easily. A web service would also
be easy to integrate.
You can start a separate process with parameters. The 'Process' class
in .NET has several properties and methods which you can use to check
its progress.

Whatever you do, I suggest that you don't wait for the process to end.
You should rather redirect and return the user to a separate page much
like sites like Orbitz do when you search for flights.

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Marc Rohloff [TeamB]
marc -at- marc rohloff -dot- com

[Benedictum]

Is this something you can do with stored procedures?

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