I’ve a legacy VC++ ActiveX dll with UIs.
This ActiveX dll can be used only in the same workstation but through browser
(IE only, because of its other dependencies.
Now there is a requirement from the customers that it should be accessible and behave same from other browsers like Chrome, Safari and FF.
Writing plug-ins for each browser, asking the customer to install it and maintaining those plug-ins is not feasible.
So I tried the following options:
- With node-ffi ( Node.js addon) but this can be used only for loading and calling native dynamic libraries but not ActiveX instantiating and rendering in browser.
a.
Cannot use Node.js -> win32ole as it works only in IE.
- Wrapping the unmanaged COM dll to an interop dll, exposing the methods and events from this wrapper, as end points using REST WCF service ( HTTP bindings and WebGet/ WebInvoke contracts
attribute).
a.
The above approach works fine for regular COM dll but not for VC++ ActiveX dll.
Is it possible someway to wrap the unmanaged ActiveX dll and expose this wrapper to be consumed by non-IE browsers/ JavaScript, using .NET or any other MS technologies?
Thank you in advance,
Subrat
SP
