I'm trying to run activex control for a simple hello world message box. First i created the class library and i have now the dll , then i created the HTML page and called the activeX control :
<!DOCTYPE>
<html>
<head>
<title>DemoActiveX</title>
</head>
<body>
<OBJECT id="DemoActiveX" classid="clsid:400DCE17-4B26-4E59-9A88-AF39E2BE4A55">
</OBJECT>
<script type="text/javascript">
try {
var obj = document.DemoActiveX;
if (obj) {
alert(obj.SayHello());
} else {
alert("Object is not created!");
}
} catch (ex) {
alert("Some error happens, error message is: " + ex.Description);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
when i tried it in my machine i used to register the dll using regasm /codebase "dll path" and it worked fine.
The problem when i tried to run in another machine, i followed the coming steps : 1) I created setup project and added the dll file.
2) I created .inf file and tried two contents which are :
[version]
signature="$CHICAGO$"
AdvancedINF=2.0
[Add.Code]
ActiveX.dll=ActiveX.dll
[ActiveX.dll]
file-win32-x86=thiscab
clsid=400DCE17-4B26-4E59-9A88-AF39E2BE4A55
FileVersion=1,0,0,0
RegisterServer=yes
---OR---
[version]
signature="$CHICAGO$"
AdvancedINF=2.0
[Setup Hooks]
install=install
[install]
run=msiexec.exe /package """%EXTRACT_DIR%\DemoActiveXSetup.msi""" /qn
3) I created .CAB file which contains the .inf and setup.exe files 4) Changed the object in HTML page to be :
<OBJECT id="DemoActiveX" classid="clsid:400DCE17-4B26-4E59-9A88-AF39E2BE4A55"
codebase="ActiveXCAB.CAB" ></OBJECT>
when i tried to open the page on the other machine a request windows opened which request to open CAB ,when i press yes nothing happened !!!!! why it doesn't open the setup.exe or msi file ?? BTW when i installed manually the setup file the activeX worked !
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