Serving custom user controls on webpages: How come all of my DLLs aren't making it to the client?

Question

Hi all,

I have a UI hosted on a webpage. I'm able to run the control on the server hosting it, but when I attempt to run it from other machines on the intranet, only some of the required DLLs make it to the client.

What direction can I take to investigate why this is happening?

Answer 1

I don't think an ActiveX control copies DLL's to the client. More likely the clients already had some of the DLLs. You'll need to install the additional DLLs somehow (as a downloadable installer or using custom code). You may run into permissions issues trying to install DLLs via a web page.