Webbrowser Silverlight 4 Control and UNC Share

Question

Hi,

I need to open documents in the WebBrowser control (SL 4) which is located on a UNC share, i think it's not possible without installing something on the client box... (COM object, physical link...)

What do you think ?

Answer 1

This is not possible, as the concept of a UNC share is considered "cross-scheme", similar to how you can't navigate to an http:// page from an https:// served application.

Your only option is to use COM to open the objects directly. This is simple enough using the Windows shell/scripting host, it will be able to send a shell run command for any UNC location that is authenticated.