Please forgive me for the cross-post.
I'm working on a web-browser program, which uses the IE WebBrowser control.
It may be used by person's who do not have IE installed on their systems.
All the registry entries - as far as I know - have been provided for by my
program, as well as a fav's folder and history cache.
What else, if anything, needs to be accounted for for the control to work
properly on a comp without IE. (except for regsvr32 and all that), or will
it work properly. I don't want the users of the program to have to install
IE before installing this program ... that would be ridiculous.
So, do I have any chance of this working? And would anyone (without
Internet Explorer) be willing to do a beta-test?
Thanks In Advance,
Houston McClung III
> I'm working on a web-browser program, which uses the IE WebBrowser
control.
> It may be used by person's who do not have IE installed on their systems
AFIK, that is against licencing -- IE must be installed on the machine for
you to use the control.
Doug.
If users will not have IE already installed, you'll need to get a license
from Microsoft to distribute IE with your program, or you can instruct your
users to download IE directly from MS prior to installing/using your
program. Those are your ONLY 2 choices if you want to use the WebBrowser
control. Even the WebBrowser control itself (shdocvw.dll, a file that is a
core component of IE) is NOT redistributable.
On a personal note, it's not ridiculous. Consider how tightly IE is tied to
Windows and the problems there would be if MS did not control distribution
of IE and its components as they do. It would be a nightmare.
Mike
"Houston McClung" <tachyon-...@home.com> wrote in message
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Do your users have any web browser (Netscape) installed? If so, you can
just use the ShellExecute API per KB article Q224816.
So, knowing that your users have to have IE installed (if for nothing other
than licensing issues) keep in mind that you also cannot just download the
installation package for IE from the MS website and include it on your CD.
That also is against licensing agreements. But you can obtain the IEAK
(Internet Explorer Administration Kit) that will allow you to create a
custom IE installation package for your users. Go to
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ieak/en/default.asp for information about
the IEAK.
Kevin
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Alternatively you could check the redist.txt file yourself for files you
can distribute.
Kevin
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