ActiveX Control Installation

[bigfoot]

I purchased Data Dynamics, Active Reports, and it's great. Except when I try to deploy it over the web. IE will not allow the ActiveX control to install.
I have about 30 laptops in the field, and my users are not pc oriented (to be nice). Is there anything I can make for them to run from a cd or something to install, or lower ie's security so the control will install?

Thanks ahead of time.

-Gary

 

[VB400]

The only thing I can think of is to write a quick VB program to:

- Copy the .OCX or .DLL file to the C: drive from the CD
- REGSVR32 path (where path is the location of the control on the C: drive)

Tarek

 

[GlennBSI]

Creating an exe that you could email to your users (like VB400 says) might be the easiest thing for you but if you wanted a little different approach, here's what I have done:

On your machine, set the Trusted Sites zone security level to low (or customize it as needed), add your site to the trusted sites zone, then go into your registry and find the places where these things are set (sorry can't tell you right offhand). Then export these keys to a file (using RegEdit).

Put that reg file on your website somewhere, then create a page that contains a link to this reg file. Finally, in your page that contains the actual control, use a cookie or something to check if the user has installed the reg file and if not, redirect them to that page - or you could simply tell your users that before they use your page for the first time, they need to go to the page that does the browser update (runs the reg file).

 

[bigfoot]

I like both ideas. Thanks to both of you.