IE hosted windows control with dependent assemblies

Question

I am working with a windows forms user control that needs to be hosted in Internet Explorer. Info about the technique I am trying to duplicate can be found here and here.

However, the control fails to load in the browser because it relies on multiple other dependant dll’s. Is there a way to get the dependent assemblies to be downloaded with the control?

Answer 1

Hi,

I also use this method to host WinForms-Controls on a html page. I found out that the internetexplorer tries to find the dependant dll in the root of the webserver. Cave: the internetexplorer does not look for the dlls in the root of the webapplication.

Let me tell you a example. I built a audio-recorder control Recorder.dll. This control uses RecLib.dll. I have a WebApp named Recorder on my local IIS and use the dll within http//localhost/Recorder/default.aspx The classid points to "localhost/Recorder/Recorder.dll#..." I have put my Recorder.dll to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\Recorder\Recorder.dll. Then I have to put the RecLib.dll to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\RecLib.dll. This is because the IE tries to find the Librariy at http//localhost/Reclib.dll

Hope I could make things clearer to you.