.NET and ActiveX question

[Guest]

What is the .NET equivalent to the old ActiveX or is there any? I have an
ASP.NET appliction and I need to build a control or something to access a
program on a server from a client machine without going through the web
server. I'm using VB.NET for my code behind. Any suggestions?

Thanks
Chris Smith

 

[Brock Allen]

The suggestion is to still use ActiveX if the app must be hosted in a browser.
Now you can use managed code to write ActiveX controls, but it's not supported
that well. And from the browser's perspective it's still a COM object, so
your managed component needs to be wrapped up as a COM component. Also, this
would meanyou need the .NET Framework installed on the client machine. And
if you're going to do that, then I'd say skip all this hassle and just build
a Click-Once app.

-Brock
DevelopMentor
http://staff.develop.com/ballen

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

The equivalent is to host a windows forms control (or application) in the
browser, assuming the client has the .NET framework installed.
Here's how:
http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/winforms/doc/WinFormsIeSourcing.aspx
http://devcenter.infragistics.com/Articles/ArticleTemplate.Aspx?ArticleID=1264

 

[Guest]

Thank you both for your suggestions. As time is short for this project I'm
going to go with the windows forms control for now but I was interested in
the managed code, unfortunately I didn't understand a lot of what I was
reading. Any suggestions on where a newbie should start with managed code?
Once again, thank you both.

Chris Smith

 

[Brock Allen]

Managed code just means .NET -- so C# or VB.NET.

-Brock
DevelopMentor
http://staff.develop.com/ballen

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

No J# nor Managed C++ ?

;-)



Juan T. Llibre
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