Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I have three programs (one in C++ + WinAPI, another one in C# .NET and the last one in Java) with different functions. I am about to choose one and implement functions of the other two. Is it possible to somehow merge them? I need to have them in one GUI, under one process (at least visually). IPC isn’t a problem.
Thanks for anything
I think the best/easiest thing you could do is make the GUI only in C#, in windows clients you could use Windows Forms or WPF, in web based you can use ASP.NET WebForms or ASP.NET MVC.
in all these cases except MVC (Razor) you have really good tools for designing and customizing the GUI within Visual Studio.
Your C++ code can be wrapped in a class library or as you say accessed via some kind of IPC if it has to run as application, same for Java but if you are 100% free to write and re-write things you could also imagine to port the Java code to C++, this could be easy, difficult or impossible depending on what the java code does.
at last resort if both C++ and Java applications must stay separated and must run in background on same or another machine and you still want to consume their services or methods from your C# GUI, as you mentioned, IPC is probably the way, not sure what you can do in Windows with Java and IPC, surely java can expose or consume XML web services.