Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 12/9/2014 Posts: 79
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I know that your main business and your target clients are .NET, but I think it could be good to do an Activex version of WebBrowser.
Our company still develops applications in VFP (Visual FoxPro). In our apps, for now, we use the IE Activex control for many functions, but we have many problems because is a very old component not updated any more.
We need replacement that meet our requirements and works well. I search and test a lot of activex controls and projects (commercial and open source) but none helped me. Desperate, i test other options and later I think in a wrapper from C++ or C#, and test a lot of projects and controls again, included CEF (C++ and C# version). With CEF (C++ and C# versions), I got run some things, but not as well as I want, because have some "global" runtime that causes some problems. Finally I found your control, that basically,from a .net point of view, meet all the our requirements (new browser based(not IE), plugins, client certificates, etc.). I do a basic wrapper and do some test, and works pretty decent.
Currently i have, in two projects, your 2014 version with my wrapper distributed to our clients.
I think that you can do an ActiveX version of your control without much truble, and that it can be a good business. You can have many potential customers, at least from VFP community. I know that other developers search an IE replacement too, and there arent a really good option in the market.
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Rank: Administration Groups: Administration
Joined: 5/27/2007 Posts: 24,201
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Hi,
We have enabled COM wrapping on our DLLs but we do not have any plans to introduce an ActiveX version. Now that we enabled COM wrapping, you can use the standard .NET COM interop features to interact with our DLLs through COM.
Thanks!
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Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Member
Joined: 12/9/2014 Posts: 79
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Ok, I understand.
Thanks!
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