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I've had nothing but headaches trying to get around
browser security problems when dealing with these
types of controls. I gave up and don't ever plan
to persue it again. A complete waste of time.

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"J.Marsch" <jmarsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Ok, so here's a problem you probably don't see every day:
>
> We are building an application that must run in a browser, but we need to
> do some things client-side that would be rather difficult to pull off with
> the usual browser-side scripting (javascript etc).
>
> It's been decided that this one, complicated function will be implemented
> by hosting a Winform in the browser. Now, this winform contains an
> ActiveX control (an HTML editor).
>
> We seem to be running into some code access security issues. Run locally
> (web server and browser on same machine), with .Net security turned off,
> everything works. Turn security on, or attempt to run the browser on a
> separate machine, and we get problems.
>
> The app requires IE 5 or better. If you have IE 5 or better, you are
> guaranteed to have the ActiveX control that we need.
> The app needs to be able to download the winform assembly.
>
> Anyone know what I need to do to make this work?
>
> Are there any good guides out there for using a Winform in the browser?
>


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