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Forrest
Forrest

Reputation: 11

How to create a wrapper for activex control in c# .net and embed in web page?

We have a 3rd party ActiveX control namely Autodesk's "Design Review" that we would like to use in a non aspx environment. Most functionality is available through javascript, however one key method cannot be called from that environment. Searching on the Autodesk forums we found a solution that involves creating a COM wrapper around the control. I would assume that wrapper would then make the necessary modifications to the arguments passed in from javascript.

I assume this could be done by creating a C++ COM object wrapping the control. My question though is, can this be done in c# .net? We don't want to embed the control in a Windows form and pop it up on the web page. We can actually do this easily. What we want is to embed the control in the web page.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5560

Answers (2)

Stuart Grassie
Stuart Grassie

Reputation: 3073

You can create a an assembly from the activex control using Windows Forms ActiveX Control Importer

Upvotes: 1

Aliostad
Aliostad

Reputation: 81660

ActiveX is COM so the technology for embedding it in a page has not change for 10-12 years ago. It is just plain HTML, with Object tag. This is pre-.NET and .NET has not made any enhancements last time I checked.

You can run C# and host it in IE and use ActiveX like that but you do not want to do it.

Have a look here:

http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_object.asp

I must say, however, that with all the limitations on running ActiveX in IE - because it was a security hole - it will not be a pleasant user experience for its users.

Upvotes: 0

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