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0 pointsJaruzel3y ago0 comments

If one is desperate, there is also the option of the classic Webview control in Visual Studio (or even the old VB6 version) which with little bit of UI added around it, can substitute for the real IE for certain enterprise legacy webapps.

A bit more effort, can also lock the control to only browse to the intended web service, and launch the default browser for any external links.

There's kind of a market for this type of solution in the legacy enterprise app space I think.

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omnibrain3y ago

You can even use a registry key (per Application using the WebView control) to specify the function level/version to emulate.

Zardoz843y ago

these WebView on VB6 isn't the IE6 engine ?

JaruzelOP3y ago

No it's a wrapper around the installed version of IE.

As a sibling comment stated, you use the registry to tell the WebView what version of IE you want to emulate (on a per app basis).

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