Display and interact with a vi front panel on remote C++ app

Hello:
I am new to LV and need a little advice. I need to display a LabVIEW VI front panel in my C++ .Net application that users can interact with to view real-time spectrum data. The C++ app (client) must reside on a separate computer(s) from the VI so that the client can connect from anywhere around the world and interact with the VI.
I am not sure about the basic architecture that should accompany a good solution. We want to use TCP/IP but not DataSocket. I do not have access to Measurement Studio but I do have access to LabVIEW Professional Development System v 8.2. Can anyone provide suggestions on what I need to do in order to
1. Connect to my TCP server using my C++ client app - I have already written TCP client and server code which communicate but now I need to integrate LV
2. Get access to the VI sitting on that server
3. Send the VI front panel to the client for display
4. Allow the user to modify parameters on the front panel displayed on the C++ client, send those changes back to the server, and refresh the front panel displayed in the C++ client given the new parameters (I would like a real-time display of the spectrum to always be available)
Is this possible? Has anyone done this using C++ .NET in VS2005? Are there examples I can mimic or references that will help direct me? I have searched and searched through NI's help and found a lot of good stuff but I'm still feeling confused about the best way to utilize LV.
Thank you in advance!

One more question ... what if I could use Measurement Studio? The documentation seems to indicate that it's easy to create network applications and therefore it would be easy for me to re-create our VI's front panel using Measurement Studio components in my C++ app and then simply connect those components to the networked hardware (TCP/IP or DataSocket) that could be located anywhere in the world.
Depending on what components you are using in your LabVIEW panel, it is probably pretty easy to build a Measurment Studio application to look like a LV panel.
Given that, you could use network shared variables to move data across the network, no TCP programming necessary -- I think that this is pretty easy to do, but I don't know the specifics about variable programming in that environment. Also, you will probably need to add some smarts to the server side to make sure that it is reading to and writing from variables in an appropriate manner.
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