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How to integrate Firefox with an membership management system for the American Legion written in C# an running under windows, using PostgeSQL as the DB engine.

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I wish to "integrate" Firefox seamlessly into the membership management system which is free software for all American Legion posts, worldwide. The American Legion is a veterans organization chartered by Congress at the end of World War One. Local groups are referred to as, "Posts". and are located worldwide. American Legion HQ in Indianapolis is a closed IBM shop using lots of IBM proprietary software and does not adequately serve the needs of the thousands of local Posts.

I have 38 years in software development and am a vet. I developed this membership management software, "MemberMuster", because it was needed and HQ had not a single clue as to what the local posts needed, nor did they seem to care beyond collecting dues. I distribute MemberMuster free of charge to any post world-wide. (MemberMuster runs under M/S Windows.)

I am continuously adding to and updating MemberMuster and would like to make the application compatible with the Internet for the purpose of facilitating communication between all the Posts worldwide.

Any help in telling me where and how to learn about integrating would be most helpful. Thanks Don

I wish to "integrate" Firefox seamlessly into the membership management system which is free software for all American Legion posts, worldwide. The American Legion is a veterans organization chartered by Congress at the end of World War One. Local groups are referred to as, "Posts". and are located worldwide. American Legion HQ in Indianapolis is a closed IBM shop using lots of IBM proprietary software and does not adequately serve the needs of the thousands of local Posts. I have 38 years in software development and am a vet. I developed this membership management software, "MemberMuster", because it was needed and HQ had not a single clue as to what the local posts needed, nor did they seem to care beyond collecting dues. I distribute MemberMuster free of charge to any post world-wide. (MemberMuster runs under M/S Windows.) I am continuously adding to and updating MemberMuster and would like to make the application compatible with the Internet for the purpose of facilitating communication between all the Posts worldwide. Any help in telling me where and how to learn about integrating would be most helpful. Thanks Don

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Hi Don, I'm not sure what you have in mind regarding integrating.

If your application needs internet connectivity, since you are on the Windows platform, you should use the built-in features of Visual Studio to connect and/or embed a browser. It would be much more work to try to use Firefox or its Gecko rendering engine inside your application.

If you want to convert your application to a webapp, since you are using Microsoft technologies, you might take a look at whether you can adapt your application to run under Azure, Microsoft's hosting service. Then it could be compatible with all modern browsers and your users would have an easy way to deploy it in the cloud.

I think the first step would be to investigate how you could convert from Windows Forms to whatever the ASP.Net web forms are called, hopefully without having to rewrite much of your business logic.

Such development issues are beyond the scope of this particular forum...