How can I get a program on a client machine to run from an ASP.NET page?

Question

I have an app that I\'m trying to run on an intranet. On my machine it worked great (famous last words) but when I put it up to the server, it didn\'t work. As soon as I saw

Answer 1

Since the machine already needs to have this "hidden" program installed, why not just write a native application and install that and have the employee run that instead of your web application?