IE woes
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The majority of these are ASP. Net sites for web apps, and. Net WinForms for the desktop apps. We are not looking to re-engineer these sites, just patch them enough so that they will run in Edge. Not much of a budget for much else unfortunately.
Andreas Mertens wrote:
just patch them enough so that they will run in Edge. Not much of a budget for much else unfortunately
In which case you probably need to speak up now, as at the very least you probably need some sort of tests set up to verify the changes have not broken anything(perhaps using Cypress). My experience is that these sorts of supposedly simple conversions end up taking much longer than the person who sold this(and who did not first ask the developers) anticipated. Much better to speak up now and risk annoying the project manager than later try to explain why it's turned into a bit of a mess.
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Just a general question. Has anyone else here had to deal with updating applications that were originally designed for Internet Explorer? The client I have been working for has a few hundred such apps, and want to migrate everything to MS Edge (chromium version) before IE goes out of support on June 15th. Some of these are really old, and some use rather odd switches that don't exist in Edge (--no frame merging for example). For a lot of these we will run in IE Mode on Edge, but even that will reach end of support in the future, and further work will be required. Likewise they have several windows apps using the WebBrowser (IE) control that will also need updating to use the WebView2 (Edge chromium) control. But it has a different API and will require significant recoding. Plus the WebView2 control itself does not support IE mode, which could be another hurdle. I welcome any advice on this. I have several ideas, but welcome hearing your own experience with this.
Good morning to all of you that replied to this. I appreciate all that you have responded with here. But quite frankly I am well aware of planning, budgets, testing etc. If I had been in charge of this, I would have started working in all this two or more years ago. But what is, is. Nor do I need suggestions on updating the HTML or JS or frameworks, etc. All of that is pretty straightforward. What I was looking for was any information from those people who have dealt with those truly IE specific technology issues when moving to a modern browser like Edge-chromium. Things like, has anyone else had to deal with the - - noframemerging issue and what you did to overcome this. Or replacing the IE specific WebBrowser control in a WinForms app with the WebView2 control, especially when the WebView2 control does not support IE Mode. Maybe this is too technical for the Lounge. In that case contact me directly. I can get all of these together and put out an article here for anyone else dealing with this (giving credit where credit is due). Thanks again...