ActiveX Control that Communicates with Client Side Devices
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I'm trying to interface a barcode scanner and a website using activeX. I have code that will read the barcode, but my issue is developing an activeX control that will run on the client machine to pick up input from the barcode scanner device. I am having trouble finding much on activeX control creation, let alone interfacing my activeX control with a device on the client machine. If it isn't possible for the control itself to interface with the client side device, then is it possible to wite a C# windows app that the active X control installs on the client machine and then communicates with? Thanks
Broken Bokken You can't carry out a ninja-style assasination dressed as an astronaut. It's the luminous fabric; too visible. - Tripod The story of your fighting is a poem of two words: YOU SUCK.
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I'm trying to interface a barcode scanner and a website using activeX. I have code that will read the barcode, but my issue is developing an activeX control that will run on the client machine to pick up input from the barcode scanner device. I am having trouble finding much on activeX control creation, let alone interfacing my activeX control with a device on the client machine. If it isn't possible for the control itself to interface with the client side device, then is it possible to wite a C# windows app that the active X control installs on the client machine and then communicates with? Thanks
Broken Bokken You can't carry out a ninja-style assasination dressed as an astronaut. It's the luminous fabric; too visible. - Tripod The story of your fighting is a poem of two words: YOU SUCK.
Broken Bokken wrote:
I am having trouble finding much on activeX control creation
Try searching for COM Server[^] rather than activeX
Broken Bokken wrote:
let alone interfacing my activeX control with a device on the client machine.
If your code works then it works. If you make it part of a COM Server it will still work, the COM Server part just uses a specific way for the hosting application to interface with your code. That said there are possibly security issues when your COM Server is hosted in a browser that you might have to deal with. Again that is an entirely separate issue from the other two.
led mike