CE-10/Dot-Net : Using the ActiveX viewer rather than DHTML? 1

[MJRBIM]

In our regular CE-10 ePortfolio interface, all our users view the report content in the ActiveX Viewer.

This is the same CE-10 environment that some of our software developers use as a repository for report content that is called from their various Dot-Net applications.

It appears that the Dot-Net applications are unable to use the ActiveX viewer, and are "FORCED" to use the DHTML Viewer. Our developers have said that this is because the DHTML Viewer is the only object that can be called from Dot-Net.

Do any Dot-Net developers out there in Tek-Tips-land have any experience/advice on ways to use the ActiveX viewer for CE-10/Dot-Net applications instead of the DHTML Viewer?

Thanks in advance.

 

[DallasAggie]

.NET only has two viewer options

(1) ActiveX -- ONLY for Windows applications
(2) DHTML -- ONLY for Web applications

I feel your pain on this. ActiveX is much cleaner than the DHTML.

If you really need and want to use the ActiveX viewer, then your developers will have to call a .ASP/.CSP page to view.

Good luck!
DallasAggie

 

[MJRBIM]

DallasAggie -

Thanks for the response...can't believe that .NET on allows only DHTML for Web applications - the ActiveX is so much more robust.

Unfortunately using ASP/CSP pages falls outside of our security parameters for .NET application development, so we may end up delivering our Reports from CE as PDFs so that we get to view everthing in the PDF viewer.

We don't have any drill-down or on-demand sub-reports, so we should notice an functional loss.

Thanks again for the tip.