Simple way to deploy Winform application to website
First of all, I know there is no perfect answer to my question. It is a bit personnal, but I'm sure many programmers face the same dilemma when they get from regular desktop applications to client/server web applications: what is the "best" language/framework to use? There are a lot of great solutions out there, all having more or less the same advantages and features. So, I would like an advice based on my needs and background.
I'm fairly experienced with VB and PHP, and I have some Javascript and C# knowledge. I currently have a perfectly functionnal C# Winform app that I would like to deploy to my website. The application uses the user's webcam to recognize a game card through a perceptual hashing algorithm and displays details of the best matched card from a MySQL database. Here's how I'd like the web version to perform:
the server sends a recordset of the whole datebase's cards ID/hash matches to the client
the client "scans" his card with his webcam and creates a hash
the client searches for a match between this hash and the ones in the recordset
the client returns the best match to the server
the server displays information of the card from the database
My objectives :
limit (if possible) the need for the user to install 3rd party software (flash, java, activex or other plugins)
create a solution that integrates well in a Windows/Apache/PHP environnement
create a solution that is, ideally, cross-platform
using a language/framework combination on which it's simple to write, debug and maintain code
So far, I'm eyeing Python on Eclipse or Javascript on Visual Studio. I read interesting stuff about Ruby on rails, but the learning curve might be a bit steep for me. I don't mind learning a new language and coding the app again from scratch, but I'd like as much as possible to use the skills and code I already have.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
First of all, I know there is no perfect answer to my question. It is a bit personnal, but I'm sure many programmers face the same dilemma when they get from regular desktop applications to client/server web applications: what is the "best" language/framework to use? There are a lot of great solutions out there, all having more or less the same advantages and features. So, I would like an advice based on my needs and background.
I'm fairly experienced with VB and PHP, and I have some Javascript and C# knowledge. I currently have a perfectly functionnal C# Winform app that I would like to deploy to my website. The application uses the user's webcam to recognize a game card through a perceptual hashing algorithm and displays details of the best matched card from a MySQL database. Here's how I'd like the web version to perform:
the server sends a recordset of the whole datebase's cards ID/hash matches to the client
the client "scans" his card with his webcam and creates a hash
the client searches for a match between this hash and the ones in the recordset
the client returns the best match to the server
the server displays information of the card from the database
My objectives :
limit (if possible) the need for the user to install 3rd party software (flash, java, activex or other plugins)
create a solution that integrates well in a Windows/Apache/PHP environnement
create a solution that is, ideally, cross-platform
using a language/framework combination on which it's simple to write, debug and maintain code
So far, I'm eyeing Python on Eclipse or Javascript on Visual Studio. I read interesting stuff about Ruby on rails, but the learning curve might be a bit steep for me. I don't mind learning a new language and coding the app again from scratch, but I'd like as much as possible to use the skills and code I already have.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
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