OWC issue with Visual Studio .NET 2005

Posted Fri, Aug 25 2006 19:48 by vapordan@hotmail.com

The comment I received from Microsoft regarding the OWC issue is this:

ActiveX controls are not supported on the design surface in Visual Studio 2005. We intentionally do not load or render the controls because of security reasons. The browser has a sophisticated system for managing the rights and permissions of the controls which we did not want to replicate in the Visual Studio IDE, just to make it safe to edit pages containing controls. To add to the complication, for patent reasons the browser does not automatically activate ActiveX controls specificed using the object or embed tag. To make a control active it needs to be inserted by script. For more details see
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/using/techinfo/activexupdate.mspx