Is it possible to create ActiveX in VB .NET and if yes does the client
need to have .NET Framework installed?

tnx

Nikolay,

The answer is no.

And why would you use an ActiveX. I see more and more a X in the right top
of my IE and than a text that there is stopped an ActiveX from running for
security reasons.

Probably will that in IE7 even be more.

Cor

Nikolay,

A sample from ActiveX which are AFAIK not usable anymore are those that try
to come directly to the file system of the client.

Cor

Cor, I am aware of what you are speaking.
If you have red some of my previous posts here, I am looiking for
solution to compress files at client side, then upload them to server.
By compression at cleint side I mean that not the user should
zip/rar/etc the files.
As far as i can see, the only way to achieve this is by using
ActiveX.(or at least, that is what other people answerd to my posts)
Personaly I prefer the .NET way, but how to execute the compression
code client-side is unknown to me. And also the clients are not
supposed to have .NET Framework installed.
I guess back to ActiveX, right?

Nikolay,

As far as I know is the only possibility in all over the world situations
the HTML control Input and than the type file (that will ask for the file,
however I thought that you can set that in advance).

When it is more about a situation where you have full control over the
browser, than you can go for the rich client.

Cor

Nikolay,

Have have showed this link in your other thread, however to make this thread
more complete
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...psp2compat.asp

Cor

I would like this to be implemented as a part of our Intranet web
services, instead of separate application. And it is much easier to
maintain on 1000+ PCs.

"Nikolay Petrov" <(E-Mail Removed)> schrieb:
> Is it possible to create ActiveX in VB .NET and if yes does the client
> need to have .NET Framework installed?


You can use VB.NET to create controls that can be used in MFC and Internet
Explorer, however, VB6 as host environment ist not supported:

ActiveX control containers that support .NET controls
<URL:http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;EN-US;311334>

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

Nikolay,

Although I don't agree with you, I think that click once installation is
much easier to maintain than webpages, have a look at these pages.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/is...h/default.aspx

I hope this helps a little bit?

Cor

Ok Herfried thank for the link.
All my client PCs are using IE6+, so according to it thre should be no
problems, right?
Other question: I have to use SharpZipLib library in my control to
acheive what I need. Maybe the question is stupid, but i've never tried
to write custom controls, so how to add this library to my control?
Should it be done automatically, when referenced in my project?