TZRick
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Advice on Application deployment
Hello experts!
This question is more for gaining information and is very subjective, so there aren't a lot of points to pass around (as yet, depending on my opinion on the value of contributions). Due to the nature of the discussion, I may open other questions with more points to get help on the actual implementation, as I have done in the past.
What I have done so far is develop an Windows application that is supposed to manage a photo archive on our server. The photos are stored on two separate servers and the management is determined by the information stored in a database on classification, location, etc. The application (my first Windows app in C#; my background is Java) is buggy and keeps crashing. It is also quite complex due to my inexperience in Software Engineering.
What I am considering is a three part design: a front-end user interface that runs on the user's machine that interfaces with a server program that both manages the database and the photos. I initially started with a web-based interface, but I needed to be able to scan the contents of a user's hard drive to find photos, which cannot be done remotely from a web-based interface, unless an ActiveX control or some other tool is employed.
Any assistance here will be greatly appreciated.
Taarik.
This question is more for gaining information and is very subjective, so there aren't a lot of points to pass around (as yet, depending on my opinion on the value of contributions). Due to the nature of the discussion, I may open other questions with more points to get help on the actual implementation, as I have done in the past.
What I have done so far is develop an Windows application that is supposed to manage a photo archive on our server. The photos are stored on two separate servers and the management is determined by the information stored in a database on classification, location, etc. The application (my first Windows app in C#; my background is Java) is buggy and keeps crashing. It is also quite complex due to my inexperience in Software Engineering.
What I am considering is a three part design: a front-end user interface that runs on the user's machine that interfaces with a server program that both manages the database and the photos. I initially started with a web-based interface, but I needed to be able to scan the contents of a user's hard drive to find photos, which cannot be done remotely from a web-based interface, unless an ActiveX control or some other tool is employed.
Any assistance here will be greatly appreciated.
Taarik.
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