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    HI,

    I am Suneel. I am working on developing Outlook addin. I had a requirement where I have to Open Outllok Appoinment from the web browser. I am able to this by using Activex Object. But to my surprise I can see that it only works in IE. I am getting a run time error while creating Activex Object in other browsers like Firefox, chrome etc.,

    can anyone please tell me the alternative for creating Outlook application object in firefox?

    Thank you,

    suneel

    Suneel

    • Moved by Jie Bao Monday, May 7, 2012 5:28 AM (From:Visual Studio Tools for Office)
    Friday, May 4, 2012 4:34 AM

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    This really doesn't have anything to do with VSTO addins, but where is your code running on those other browsers? It has to run at client, not on the Web.
     
    Otherwise there shouldn't be much of a difference for those other browsers as long as they can work with ActiveX objects. Can they?

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    Ken Slovak
    [MVP - Outlook]
    http://www.slovaktech.com
    Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
    Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
    http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm
     
     
    "Suneel Kumar Vanapalli" <=?utf-8?B?U3VuZWVsIEt1bWFyIFZhbmFwYWxsaQ==?=> wrote in message news:3e2bb51d-d61e-46ca-b5c1-6114aa5b596b...

    HI,

    I am Suneel. I am working on developing Outlook addin. I had a requirement where I have to Open Outllok Appoinment from the web browser. I am able to this by using Activex Object. But to my surprise I can see that it only works in IE. I am getting a run time error while creating Activex Object in other browsers like Firefox, chrome etc.,

    can anyone please tell me the alternative for creating Outlook application object in firefox?

    Thank you,

    suneel

    Suneel

    Ken Slovak MVP - Outlook
    Friday, May 4, 2012 4:00 PM

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    This really doesn't have anything to do with VSTO addins, but where is your code running on those other browsers? It has to run at client, not on the Web.
     
    Otherwise there shouldn't be much of a difference for those other browsers as long as they can work with ActiveX objects. Can they?

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    Ken Slovak
    [MVP - Outlook]
    http://www.slovaktech.com
    Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
    Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
    http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm
     
     
    "Suneel Kumar Vanapalli" <=?utf-8?B?U3VuZWVsIEt1bWFyIFZhbmFwYWxsaQ==?=> wrote in message news:3e2bb51d-d61e-46ca-b5c1-6114aa5b596b...

    HI,

    I am Suneel. I am working on developing Outlook addin. I had a requirement where I have to Open Outllok Appoinment from the web browser. I am able to this by using Activex Object. But to my surprise I can see that it only works in IE. I am getting a run time error while creating Activex Object in other browsers like Firefox, chrome etc.,

    can anyone please tell me the alternative for creating Outlook application object in firefox?

    Thank you,

    suneel

    Suneel

    Ken Slovak MVP - Outlook
    Friday, May 4, 2012 4:00 PM
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    either find out if other browser has some plug-in that allows to run activex inside them or look at what supported there scripting languages support in term of local system bindings.
    Friday, May 4, 2012 4:43 PM
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    Can't do that - FF does not support AX controls or COM object out of the box.

    There are some FF extensions that allow to use AX controls in FF, but I don't think there is anything publicly available that woudlallow your Java script to access any COM objects.

    Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
    http://www.dimastr.com/redemption
    Redemption - what the Outlook
    Object Model should have been
    Version 5.3 is now available!

    Friday, May 4, 2012 4:59 PM