Re: Hello, I'm Ulf Dittmer Community Center Say Hello! by Ulfson Mastodon is pretty much the only social network I'm on these days (except for nebenan.de, which is similar to Nextdoor, but much more popular here in Germany). Simplifying my online presence, I deleted my Facebook and Nextdoor accounts this year. Re: Hello, I'm Ulf Dittmer Community Center Say Hello! by trcooke I've pretty much excluded myself from all social media things because their primary reason for being is to push advertising and propaganda to you, and I don't like it. I frequently remind myself of the mantra: > If you don't pay for the product, you are the product The only exception is LinkedIn, because despite my mistrust of the platform I… Re: Cannot run exe from asp.net Programming Web Development by Dani Marking this question as solved. Thanks all! Hello, I'm Ulf Dittmer Community Center Say Hello! by Ulfson … in moving the Ranch from UBB to [JForum](https://sourceforge.net/projects/jforum2/); I'm a committer to the open source… Re: Ensuring data consistency and integrity Hardware and Software Cloud-based Apps by Dani We make heavy use of PHP's [Memcached::getDelayedByKey](https://www.php.net/manual/en/memcached.getdelayedbykey.php) which requests multiple items all from a specific server (hashed on the server key, which is the Topic ID #). That ensures that when you pull up a topic, we can retrieve all items for that topic in one request, all from one server. Re: Hello, I'm Ulf Dittmer Community Center Say Hello! by John_165 Welcome aboard! Do you build mobile apps with a cross‑platform framework or only stick to native Android/iOS? And where do you usually find your freelance projects? Re: Hello, I'm Ulf Dittmer Community Center Say Hello! by trcooke Well hello there Ulf! It certainly has been a minute since we last spoke, in fact I just dug out the last email conversation that we had just over 10 years ago! Nice to be in touch again. I still enjoy reading your [one paragraph movie reviews](https://www.ulfdittmer.com/view?RecentMovies) :) Re: Hello, I'm Ulf Dittmer Community Center Say Hello! by Dani Hello there and welcome to DaniWeb! Thank you so much for taking the time to join here. Re: Hello, I'm Ulf Dittmer Community Center Say Hello! by Ulfson > Welcome aboard! Do you build mobile apps with a cross‑platform framework or only stick to native Android/iOS? And where do you usually find your freelance projects? I stick to native Android. Way back when I thought Apache Cordova was pretty cool for reaching smaller platforms, but now that there are essentially just two platforms left, I… Re: Hello, I'm Ulf Dittmer Community Center Say Hello! by Ulfson > Well hello there Ulf! It certainly has been a minute since we last spoke, in fact I just dug out the last email conversation that we had just over 10 years ago! Nice to be in touch again. I still enjoy reading your [one paragraph movie reviews](https://www.ulfdittmer.com/view?RecentMovies) :) Huh, you're the one :-) I use it mostly as a … Re: Hello, I'm Ulf Dittmer Community Center Say Hello! by trcooke Mastadon, well there's a blast from the past. I couldn't even tell you which servers I had accounts on. Re: Hello, I'm Ulf Dittmer Community Center Say Hello! by Dani A blast from the past? Didn't Mastodon first gain popularity around 2020ish? When I think of a blast from the past, I think of AOL Instant Messenger and MySpace. Re: Hello, I'm Ulf Dittmer Community Center Say Hello! by trcooke I never really connected with it so just feels like a long time ago. But I share you sentiments in general for things of the past, such as the 8086 processor and SCSI disks. 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No one would ever use the web, it would be so totally insecure. So web pages are prohibited from running programs on your computer. They can … Re: Cannot run exe from asp.net Programming Web Development by Salem https://xyproblem.info/ * User wants to do X. Sometime later... > My boss just asked me to create a prototype as proof of concept. There is no specific language/tool I must use * User asks for help with Y. Initially asked... > Have a webpage with a button, when pressed, it will launch a webpage that runs a server side exe (eg, … Re: Cannot run exe from asp.net Programming Web Development by Reverend Jim >No, Javascript cannot run/start executables on the client machine. Technically correct but there are ways around it. For example, save a file in a special folder on the target computer, which has a folder watch on that folder. The watching task could then trigger a local task. Re: Cannot run exe from asp.net Programming Web Development by gediminas.bukauskas.7 Pritaeas answered the question: normal WEB security settings forbids launching executables on a client machine. The only legal workaround is to create windows service (daemon in Linux environment), install it on client machine and listen for some commands coming from server over WEB sockets. Re: Cannot run exe from asp.net Programming Web Development by lennyli > Pritaeas answered the question: normal WEB security settings forbids launching executables on a client machine. The only legal workaround is to create windows service (daemon in Linux environment), install it on client machine and listen for some commands coming from server over WEB sockets. Sure, I understand, but for my above new … Re: Cannot run exe from asp.net Programming Web Development by Salem > When I run the command "python server.py" on the server pc, it held for a second, then released back to the command prompt. So did it even give you `print("Waiting for a connection...")` ? Consider making your server main like this. if __name__ == "__main__": print('Server Begin') … Re: Cannot run exe from asp.net Programming Web Development by lennyli > > When I run the command "python server.py" on the server pc, it held for a second, then released back to the command prompt. > > So did it even give you `print("Waiting for a connection...")` ? > > Consider making your server main like this. > > if __name__ == "__main__": >… Re: Cannot run exe from asp.net Programming Web Development by lennyli I fixed the problem by ensuring the path is including python. Also on the server I must run pip install Thank you all All working now Re: Cannot run exe from asp.net Programming Web Development by Salem Congrats on getting going. > Even if i run the setup and ticked the option "add to path", the echo %PATH% command didnt seem to show what i expected. Yeah, this won't transform the PATH of any existing process. 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If you’d like to see DiDi in action, there is also a video … Cannot run exe from asp.net Programming Web Development by lennyli …/web-development/threads/386380/cannot-run-exe-files-in-asp-net-application but still lost in trying to achieve something. I… installed the latest .net framework, and IIS on the latest updated windows 11. I… Re: Cannot run exe from asp.net Programming Web Development by pritaeas > while at the same time run the same exe on the local client pc. Not possible. Re: Cannot run exe from asp.net Programming Web Development by pritaeas No, Javascript cannot run/start executables on the client machine.