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Internet Explorer loosing support from MS

Anders

Hi,

Due to the fact that MS will drop support for internet explorer, I thought I should look into the IE ActiveX that I use in Citect.

I suppose that it will stop working when IE is removed. My IT-department informed me that they will remove IE from our computers when support is dropped. This will be replaced by Edge Chromium (which will have IE11 support: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/edge-ie-mode )

In CiCode i call the IE ActiveX like this:
CreateControlObject("Microsoft web browser","Web Browser", 5, 30, 1105, 850);

And by looking at the ActiveXes i suppose this calls the ieframe.dll.

Will there be an edge-ActiveX to use in the same way as the ie-ActiveX?

/Anders

  • Do you have any reference that IE will not get supported in the future version of Windows?
  • I think the messages on the internet are not pointing to the support of IE:
    :
    IE 11 is "the last version of Internet Explorer," according to a Microsoft FAQ document. IE 11 ships on Windows 10, so if a version of Windows 10 is still supported, presumably IE 11 is supported, too. However, IE 11 still will lose support for Microsoft 365 services next year on Aug. 17, 2021.
    "

  • More info about support dropping for IE: www.theverge.com/2020/8/17/21372487/microsoft-internet-explorer-11-support-end-365-legacy-edge

    Whatever that means, my IT-deparment is dropping IE from our computers, which puts me in a position to find another ActiveX. And I thought I'd be looking for it in time, this time. ;)

  • You could look into using Microsofts WebView2 control. It's the Edge Chromium variant of the Web Browser control.

    You have to download the WebView2 SDK to be able to use it. I'm not completely sure if it can be used within Citect pages, but here's a Getting Started page for a standard Windows Forms application in Visual Studio. Should be similar to Graphics Builder I hope.

    Please let us know how you go.

    Regards,

    Patrick

  • Hi Anders,
    The link that you shared is just telling what I have told you above:
    "
    Microsoft will end support for Internet Explorer 11 across its Microsoft 365 apps and services next year. In exactly a year, on August 17th, 2021, Internet Explorer 11 will no longer be supported for Microsoft’s online services like Office 365, OneDrive, Outlook, and more.
    "
    Again, IE11 didn't reach the end of life so I don't see this one as a reason to remove it from the computers.

    With Plant SCADA 2020 R2, the newer HTML5 native web client is going to be released.

    I will probably follow this other option and drop the ActiveX
  • Whatever the link says or what MS says, my IT-department will remove IE from me.
    Hence my need for an alternative.
    And by the statement from MS I wouldn´t count on IE staying around for forever.

    I will look into WebView2, although I'd rather use an "natively supported" object.
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