What to use when creating a stand alone app from a web app?

I was asked to create a stand alone application from a web app - I have to keep the same look and feel and of course the functionality. Basically, the end result should be the following: a standalone product that looks and does exactly the same thing as its web - based counterpart.

I have been developing for some time with asp.net and c#, but I doubt 开发者_如何学运维this is easy to convert to a standalone C# application.

I heard some stuff about xaml - but I am not sure what to use to make my life a little bit easier.

Should I just leave the .Net platform and turn to Java? Or if I keep the .Net what should I use?

better to keep in .net as it would be easier to migrate the code. and .net is better than java in terms of desktop apps.

Web and desktop apps are fundamentally quite different (as much as ASP.NET Web Forms developers would argue to the contrary), but you should be able to reuse a lot of your business logic (especially if you separated your concerns properly). I'd suggest starting with a new Windows Forms project, building out an equivalent set of controls (buttons, grids, etc), and then looking for opportunities to borrow UI logic (click events, etc).

If your web app is written in ASP.NET, then I would stick with that.

If your web app was built properly and the new app has to have the exact same functionality, then you should be able to re-use most of the code whether you use WPF or Windows forms. You would just need to rebuild the UI.

Keep the .Net code and see how much you can reuse. Tell that you can't make the user interface look and work exactly the same and that there will be a lot of minor and some major differences. Add that the look and feel will be the same with added functionality.

See if you can reuse the basic data loading code. Then simply create a form/panel/tabpage for each page in the web application and see what you can reuse.

Or easier yet, create a simple windows application using a browser window and simply point to the existing app.