Question

this is my scenario:

• ERP (Axapta 2009) installed into a terminal server, running for user via Remote Desktop

i need to allow user to click an Ax button and run a local application (say Outlook).. not remote, but from user pc.

Axapta allow me to use .Net code (for instance ProcessInfo) to run external process / application.

But i think the problem is to run a local application via RDP.
Is it possible ?
Thanks

Answer 1

There’s no simple way I’m aware of nor any managed way either.

The API you’d be interested in would be Remote Desktop Service Virtual Channels:

A virtual channel application has two parts, a client module and a server module. The server module is an executable program running on the Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) server. The client module is a DLL that must be loaded into memory on the client computer when the Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client program runs.

You would then use standard inter-process signalling to communicate with the server module, to forward the “launch” command to the client module, which would then finally run the “local” application.

To be honest, I wouldn’t have thought it worth it.