Bear with me,  this is going to be  complex  but has relevance to  building a DNN interface to an existing SQL Server based application, in the end.

Over the past 20 years, together with partners I built a small software business and last year inherited the IP due to  termination of the partnership.  We'd  established a  small but stable customer base, mainly large corporate clients, having evolved the product and keeping some of our customers happy for more than 13 years.

Last year I decided to use the revenue source to drive a human rights and social enterprise advocacy,  becoming a social purpose business. Our revenue funds efforts to leverage development  aid funding to address the causes of poverty, specifically in Eastern Europe. I used DNN to build our website recently to gain experience.

http://www.p-ced.com

In the business application, we have a web client as an ActiveX DLL running under IIS but from what I've seen DNN offers a better way forward. It isn't going to be easy, there's a lot of complex processing behind the screen images including rollback mechanisms to preserve data integrity.

Having also "played" with ASP.NET, I can see that the coding concepts such as C# aren't that far away from the development language I've been using, namely CA Visual Objects.

I'm looking for suggestions. Whether I might take the route of developing a DNN module to replace the current ActiveX, such that I might offer customers the opportunity of integrating with their own sites, converting the app to a free standing DNN product or perhaps even encouraging others to collaborate in either development to create a public domain interface or even a revenue sharing mechanism for others who might be interested in deploying the business for social purpose paradigm themselves.

Any suggestions?

Jeff Mowatt              
   

Hi Michael,

That looks interesting.  From a  quick  overview  it seems that  I'd be  instantiating  my app from DNN rather than  via an .asp script as I do currently. Have I got the gist?

It would be a start certainly, building new functionality  into the app with other DNN  modules.

Regards,
Jeff