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GeneralWinForm embedding in IE and Security Pin
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afinnell18-Oct-04 5:45
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I completely agree that forcing an application to run would be futile and very bad. That is not what I want or am I proposing. I did like the idea of allowing the user to select 'Yes' when an ActiveX control is loaded on a page. The control needs to be signed by the producer and the user needs to accept the control. This is much easier for my customers to understand as opposed to having to run another application to get permissions to run yet another control that is hosted on a web page.

In my case if they have to download an application that will automatically change their security settings then I might as well code the functionality I need into the application they need to download. I don't really need to do too much but I do need unrestrictive access. Specifically in the case that I am trying to solve I have many customers that are affected by the Office 2000 HTML Source Editing bug where it trys to install the dhtmled control when triedit is first loaded. The control already exists and doesn't need to be installed again. Also the customers have no idea where their CD is and don't understand why they need it to run an application developed by us.

I understand the reason's, but I'm not sure there are many real world products that will be able to run within the constraints of the security model currently in place. These applications would need to be thin clients that do all I/O and processing on the server. This is useful for those that wish to write thin clients but not those that want to run a full client side application from a web page.

In some sense I really wanted to be able to create a Windows Update type system in .NET, except it would update my product and anything else that needs to be fixed. There are many reasons I'm sure Microsoft themselves have still stuck with ActiveX controls, one being the fact that the .NET runtime isn't always installed and is installed through the Windows Update mechanism for most users.

I completely understand the security ramifications and agree with them, however it does seem nice when you would able to give your customer a URL, tell them to hit yes and that be it, especially when you spend hours explaining to them how to just turn on their computer.

This is where Microsoft gets into trouble all the time. They pick ease of use over security sometimes and I completely understand. The time will come when we don't have to pick one over the other but I don't think that time is now.







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