Query the user n/w via Internet Explorer using .net

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Hi all,

Please help me with your valuable guidence.

I have done a web application which is hosted on our web server and is even accessable via internet for everyone.
Once user opens the web site, the user will be prompted to enter the range of IP address to query the n/w for indentifying the avaible printers.
Once after identifying the printers on the web page a list of suitable updated drivers will be displayed and he can download & install them as wanted.

Now to perform point 2. I thought to have an ActiveX component which will be installed on the user PC when he visits the web site. Please suggest me how to proceed with ActiveX component & install it via IE?

Or else if you feel that there is better option other than ActiveX component to get the required information from end user, then please let me know.

To summarise I need ur help for below questions..

1.How to install ActiveX component(here C#.net dll is exposed as COM) via IE on client machines?
2.Any other procedure/way other AcitveX component to query in user machine via IE?

Please share you thoughts & guide me.

Thanks,
Balu

Posted 24-Apr-11 22:32pm

balu12345

Updated 25-Apr-11 3:40am

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Pete O'Hanlon · Answer 1 · 2011-04-25T10:06:00

While you can use ActiveX quite effectively to do this, I'd ask you to reconsider writing it in C#. With ActiveX in C#, you maybe requiring the end user to download the .NET framework to run on their machine in order to run your control.

Potentially, another approach may be to use an HTA (HTML Application) and a JavaScript query hitting the WMI services. You can find details on WMI here[^].