Experience of developing web version of a desktop application

Question

We are in the process of starting a web version of desktop application developed in Winforms in vs2008 with linq-to-sql.Has anyone ever done such an implementation? What issues you faced when reusing code for web version?

Answer 1

if you partitioned your business logic and data layer into well-separated objects, it works well. But if you have UI logic scattered throughout it's gonna be painful. My advice: separate projects and unit test for UI, Business Objects, Business Logic and Data and use interfaces between each layer. Done it multiple times and it provides the best way . Of course you're already tied into an existing system.

Answer 2

if you design your application with n-tier architecture, thus you must have separated logic and data access and UI layers. with this architecture you don't need that write logic and data access layers. only write a new web ui for this.