Re: Now I need to do this without breaking ASP.Net

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I second Nick's comment. And that's I was thinking when reading your post
and before reading Nick's reply.

"Patrick Bates" <pbates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've been struggling for two weeks now to duplicate a VB6 ActiveX control
in VB.Net, and also improve it's functionality. The control is used to
collect the user's fingerprint and compare it to a stored copy on the
server, and if the match is successful fill some hidden fields with values
and call a form submit. We wanted to use web services rather than direct
SQL connections as we do now, and to also have the web service URL set
dynamically.

We built the project as a Windows Control (DLL) class with COM Class and
COM Visible set to True. We were able to get the control to load in IE,
but due to the need to interface with the local USB fingerprint device we
had to list the web site as Trusted and elevate the Trusted Zone to
perform no security checks (Problem #1).

The class required a couple of DLL files to function properly, and as
expected we were able to put them in the same folder as the class DLL file
and they were downloaded automatically. The problem was the App.Config
file, it never would download. (Problem #2) We recently figured out that
apparently a DLL can't make use of App.Config, but the calling app can.
This explained seeing the client attempt to download iexplore.exe.config
in the web logs. To make matters worse, it wasn't attempting to download
the file from the location of the class DLL, but rather from the root of
the web site and from /bin folder. (Problem #3)

So we renamed the App.Config file and placed it in the root. It still
would not download, this time with 403 Errors which we determined were the
ASP.Net interpreter trying to process the file rather than allow direct
access. (Problem #4) We decided to remove the parsing of .config files
from the configuration of the root web app, which finally allowed
everything to execute properly. But now, if we had any web.config files
in the root app, they would be open to being freely downloaded, and might
not even work at all (Problem #5)

I just know there has to be a better way to do this. I cannot believe
that it's this difficult with .Net to duplicate and improve on the
functionality we had using VB6. Perhaps someone with experience in things
such as this will step forward and point us in another direction.

Thanks,
Patrick Bates




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