bmshn Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 I am currently researching the ability to develop an application to be run on an industrial console. The application will be somewhat simple, however we are exploring the possibility of certain things such as allowing the application to connect to a database over a network, and having the ability to remote into the machine for troubleshooting, etc.The end user has no knowledge of computers other than knowing how to use the touch screen application we are providing for them.My question is, what is my best Windows-based OS option to house this sort of application? We have two important requirements:1) Reliability. It would be very bad if the system crashed for odd reasons, which is sometimes an issue with Windows, due to the number of things that run in the background even when only one application is active.2) OS Transparency. When you boot up the machine, the end user should barely even be able to tell which OS the console is using. He will not want to ever see a start menu, taskbar, etc. They should not be able to shut down the application and get to the Windows desktop in order launch or install other applications, or access the file system, etc. (The only exception to this would be our backdoor hack used to debug issues for them)Does Windows have a good answer for something like this? I would like to write the app in .NET, however I'm open to using C/C++ instead if Linux is the only reasonable option for achieving those 2 goals. If anyone can steer me in the right direction I'd really appreciate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANEMAN Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 Hi there, and Apologies for delay.researching the ability to develop an application to be run on an industrial console The main problem with this sort of question is that as a voluntary information forum, the majority of users are domestic/home computer users with little, or no knowledge of industrial computing.Someone may sign in with such knowledge, - or not. There is not a specialist team on call as in some paid for services.Once again apologies.Please look back in to see if anyone answers your post.John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmshn Posted January 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 Hi there, and Apologies for delay.researching the ability to develop an application to be run on an industrial console The main problem with this sort of question is that as a voluntary information forum, the majority of users are domestic/home computer users with little, or no knowledge of industrial computing.Someone may sign in with such knowledge, - or not. There is not a specialist team on call as in some paid for services.Once again apologies.Please look back in to see if anyone answers your post.John.Okay, thanks for the heads up. I apologize if this is perhaps outside of the scope of this forum. Hopefully, somebody may have some helpful information, but if not thank you anyway for your time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANEMAN Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 You are very welcome.The level of expertise varies with exactly who is signed in to the open forum at any given time.John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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