Displaying an ActiveX in a Web Form (or a WPF form)

Displaying an ActiveX in a Web Form (or a WPF form)

Hi there,
 
 Do I have to use the WebBrowser control ? If it is the case, how can I 
 achieve this, by building and loading an HTML document ?
 
 Best regards

date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:21:28 +0200 author: Oriane ail

Re: Displaying an ActiveX in a WinForm (or a WPF form)

I think that my first post was not precise enough !

I would like want to dynamically show and use ActiveX (already installed on
the computer) in a WPF application. My first idea was to use a Web Browser
control (so inside a Windows Form :-( ) and then to create a HTML file with
a <object classid="clsid:{ED6BB178...> tag to be loaded into the WebBrowser.
But I didn't succeed in this way...and I need some help

I've tried this:
           webBrowser1.Navigate ("About:blank");
           webBrowser1.DocumentText = "<html><head><title>This is a
test</title></head><body>This is a <strong>test</strong></body></html>";
           webBrowser1.Show();

but nothing appears on the WebBrowser control...

Or perhaps can I do something much simpler ?

Best regards

date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:21:34 +0200 author: PhilTheGap

RE: Displaying an ActiveX in a Web Form (or a WPF form)

Hello,
Welcome to Microsoft Newsgroup Support Service! My name is Marco Zhou. It's 
my pleasure to work with you on this thread.

I've tried to reproduce this issue you described above, here is my test 
code which could display the Flash player inside WPF application:

public WebBroweserHostDemo()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    WebBrowser webBrowser = new WebBrowser();
    this.Content = webBrowser;
    String html = @"<object classid='f5ff5d7d-a3aa-4ca4-9999-a42b6c33862d'>
                                <param name='movie' 
value='http://www.youtube.com/v/KetwauxzfEc'/>
                                <param name='wmode' value='transparent' />
                                <embed 
src='http://www.youtube.com/v/KetwauxzfEc' 
type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' />
                        </object>";
    webBrowser.NavigateToString(html);
}

And the above code works well for me. WPF 3.5 SP1 has introduces a new 
WebBrowser control which you could directly use inside WPF application 
without using WindowsFormsHost. You could try it out to see if it fulfills 
your requirements.

Have you tried to display the HTML you programmatically constructed inside 
the Internet Explorer to see if IE could properly display it?

If IE cannot display it, you might not correctly construct the HTML, I 
would greatly appreciate it if you could post the full HTML you 
programmatically constructed in this thread, this would help us diagnose 
this issue, and if possible, it's event better if you could send the 
ActiveX control to us, so that we could try to reproduce this issue at our 
box.

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date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:26:39 GMT author: (Marco Zhou [MSFT])

Re: Displaying an ActiveX in a Web Form (or a WPF form)

Hi Marco,
"Marco Zhou [MSFT]"  a écrit dans le message 
de news:9r0ukY0AJHA.1688@TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
> Welcome to Microsoft Newsgroup Support Service! My name is Marco Zhou. 
> It's
> my pleasure to work with you on this thread.
>
> I've tried to reproduce this issue you described above, here is my test
> code which could display the Flash player inside WPF application:
Your code works fine.
Now I also would like to achieve the same behavior with a Windows Form 
application. So I've tried to replace NavigateToString by Navigate (a method 
of the WinForm WebBrowser) but I get an ArgumentException when running on 
Navigate.

public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            String html = @"<object 
classid='CLSID:22D6f312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95'
                              codebase='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6.4.7.1112' 
type='application/x-oleobject' >
                                <param name='Filename'
                                       value='http://srvdev/sites/RetD/gilif/Images%20gilif/Butterfly.wmv'/>
                                <param name='wmode' value='transparent' />
                                <embed
                                       src='http://srvdev/sites/RetD/gilif/Images%20gilif/Butterfly.wmv'
                                       type='application/x-shockwave-flash' 
wmode='transparent' />
                        </object>";
            webBrowser4.Navigate (html);
        }

Do you know why ?

Thanks again for your help.

PS:  I have problem with the News microsoft server: I cannot anymore send 
posts :-( That's why I post from a different server.

date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:36:18 +0200 author: PhilTheGap

Re: Displaying an ActiveX in a Web Form (or a WPF form)

Ok Marco,

I've replaced NavigateToString with DocumentText for a Windows form and it's 
ok...

date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:55:05 +0200 author: PhilTheGap

Re: Displaying an ActiveX in a WinForm (or a WPF form)

Hello,

Thanks for your update, we are glad to know that this issue has been 
resolved by yourself, if you continue having any further questions on this 
issue, free feel to post here.

--------------------------------------------------
Best regards,
Macro Zhou (v-mazho@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

Delighting our customers is our #1 priority. We welcome your comments and 
suggestions about how we can improve the support we provide to you. Please 
feel free to let my manager know what you think of the level of service 
provided. You can send feedback directly to my manager at: 
msdnmg@microsoft.com.

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:43:46 GMT author: (Marco Zhou [MSFT])