what is the .NET framework good for in IE?

[Anton Sommer]

Hello folks,

what is the .NET framework snapin in IE good for? I mean in the Security
settings of IE you can activate the execution of .NET framework components.
How could a .NET developer execute such a Component?


Thank you

Anton

 

[Oliver]

There's an article here on using rich clients inside the browser:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/06/rich/default.aspx

Note especially the section called

Writing Partially Trusted Software

and Zones:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/06/rich/figures.asp#fig4

 

[bruce barker]

if you write a active/x control in .net, then this allows IE to host it
(actually allows the control to fire events that IE will catch - normally a
security violation ) . the user must first install the .net framework (~22mb
download), and the page load takes awhile as the vm is fired up.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)